The L-Shaped Room

Based On the book by Lynne Reid Banks

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".

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Release date:

1962

Director:

Bryan Forbes

Cast:

Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Bernard Lee, Tony Booth

Genre:

Drama

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Year page:

1962 in adaptations