LOVING LOVINGWRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JEFF NICHOLS Preliminary production notes INTERNATIONAL PR Running Time: 123 minutes DDA INTERNATIONAL SALES Adele Ibbotson & Nastasya Morauw INSIDERS
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[email protected] 10 La Croisette - Cannes SYNOPSIS A world premiere LOVING celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred at the 2016 Cannes Loving (portrayed in the film by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who fell in love and were married in 1958. International Film Festival, The couple had grown up in Central Point, a small town in Virginia that was more integrated than surrounding LOVING is the new film areas in the American South. Yet it was the state of Virginia, where they were making their home and starting a family, that first jailed and then banished them. Richard and Mildred relocated with their children to the from acclaimed writer/director inner city of Washington, D.C. While relatives made them feel welcome there, the more urban environment Jeff Nichols, did not feel like home to them. Ultimately, the pull of their roots in Virginia would spur Mildred to try to find who previously screened a way back. TAKE SHELTER Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the and MUD at Cannes. very foundation of the right to marry. Richard and Mildred returned home and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.