They fall in love, stay in love, build a life and raise a family, and there is nothing exceptional about them but for the fact that doing all that when one partner is black and the other white is a criminal offense in the state of Virginia.Īlso Read: 'American Honey' Cannes Review: It's a Long Day's Journey Into the American Night Instead, “Loving” maintains a laser-like focus on the domestic life of Richard and Mildred Loving ( Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga). The case and the details pertaining to it are rather peripheral to the film, which premiered in the main competition at Cannes on Monday. The momentous ruling changed everything, and nothing. Nichols’ key insight is that for all its historical heft, the civil rights decision affected nothing that wasn’t already there. Nearly 50 years later, Jeff Nichols offers a modest salute to the couple at the center of the decision with “Loving.” The film traces a strong, steady line to a foregone conclusion, and that steadiness is exactly the point. In 1967, the Supreme Court overturned all bans on interracial marriage with its landmark decision in Loving v.
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