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The L-Shaped Room
1962 British film by Bryan Forbes
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama romance film written and directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1960 novel by Lynne Reid Banks. It tells the story of Jane Fosset, a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a cheap London boarding house, befriending a young man, Toby, in the building. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film reflected a trend in British films of greater frankness about sex and displays a sympathetic treatment of outsiders "unmarried mothers, lesbian or black" as well as a "largely natural and non-judgmental handling of their problems". As director, Forbes represents "a more romantic, wistful type of realism" than that of Tony Richardson or Lindsay Anderson. Leslie Caron's performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Cicely Courtneidge gave what she considered her finest film performance...
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