Loving 2016

     This film is based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving.  In 1958, they go to Washington DC to get married.  When they get back home in Virginia, they are both arrested because it’s against the law in this county and state for different races to marry.  Richard is released because he has been bailed out but Mildred will have to wait until the weekend is over.  One of her relatives will need to come to the jail and post bail for her.  This is more complicated because she is expecting a baby.  Richard talks to the police officers but they have no sympathy for the couple or their incarceration.

     This movie is very good.  The Loving’s really care for each other and it doesn’t matter to them that their races are different.  They just want to be married and be together just like other couples.  After they are arrested, the judge states they can be released if they leave Virginia and not return for 25 years.  Otherwise, they will go to prison for their crime.  This is very difficult for Mildred because she loves her family and she doesn't want to leave them.  I liked the cars of the period.  Richard and his friends are into racing them too.  4* (I really liked this movie)

    

123 min, Bio directed by Jeff Nichols with Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Chris Greene, Benjamin Booker, Justin Robinson, Dennis Williams, Keith Tyree, Sharon Blackwood.

Note:  Imdb 7 out of 10, 89% critic 76% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 494 reviews, Metacritic 79 out of 100 with 46 critics 7.3 out of 10 with 86 reviews, Rollingstone 3.5* out of 4*, The Guardian 4* out of 5*.

Special Note:  Filmed in Charles City County, Lawrenceville, Hopewell, Bowling Green, Ashland, Petersburg, Richmond, Sandston, Virginia and Washington DC.

Special Note:  Mildred Delores Jeter Loving’s obituary of 2008 in the New York Times stated her ancestry was part African American and part Native American from both of her parents.  A lot of the information for this film was taken from Nancy Buirski’s documentary The Loving Story of 2011.  Documentary footage from the mid 1960’s was discovered and used in this film.  The actual Virginia jail where the Loving’s were taken is shown in those scenes.  Caroline County Circuit Court Judge Leon M. Bazile wrote that God created the races and he placed them on separate continents.  The races were separated because He did not intend for the races to mix.