9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Retrosective - New British Cinema 1956-1968
The L-Shaped Room
by Bryan Forbes
Country: UK
Year: 1962
Duration: 142'
When Jane Fosset moves into the Lshaped room at the top of a house in Notting Hill Gate, she is pregnant and means to have an abortion, but disgust at the attitude of a gynaecologist whom she visits, decides her to have the baby after all. Ignorant of all this, fellow lodger Toby an unsuccessful writer falls in love with Jane, and she eventually lets him spend the night with her. This angers Toby's friend, the coloured jazzman Johnnie, who, when Jane is at the café where she now works as a waitress, tells Toby that she is pregnant. Toby leaves her and Jane tries to end her pregnancy by swallowing pills. To her own relief, Jane does not lose the baby. When the baby is born, Toby visits Jane in hospital and gives her his latest story, The LShaped Room. Jane decides to go home to France.
Biography
film director
Bryan Forbes
FILMOGRAFIA
Whistle Down the Wind (1961), The L-Shaped Room (La stanza a forma di L, 1962), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Ventimila sterline per Amanda, 1964), King Rat (Qualcuno da odiare, 1965), The Wrong Box (La cassa sbagliata, 1966), The Whisperers (1967), Deadfall (1968), The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), The Raging Moon (Luna arrabbiata, 1971), The Stepford Wives (La fabbrica delle mogli, 1975), The Slipper and the Rose (La scarpetta e la rosa, 1976), International Velvet (Una corsa sul prato, 1978), Les séducteurs (I seduttori della domenica, ep., cm, 1980), Better Late Than Never (Profumo di mare, 1983), The Naked Face (A faccia nuda, 1984).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Bryan Forbes.
Screenplay: Bryan Forbes, dal romanzo di Lynne Reid Banks.
Director of photography: Douglas Slocombe.
Editor: Anthony Harvey.
Music: il Concerto n. 1 per piano di Brahms, John Barry.
Sound: George Stephenson.
Cast: Leslie Caron (Jane), Tom Bell (Toby), Brock Peters (Johnny), Cicely Courtneidge (Mavis), Emlyn Williams (il dr. Weaver), Bernard Lee (Charlie), Avis Bunnage (Doris), Patricia Phoenix (Sonia), Verity Edmett (Jane II).
Production company: James Woolf, Richard Attenborough per la Romulus.
Screenplay: Bryan Forbes, dal romanzo di Lynne Reid Banks.
Director of photography: Douglas Slocombe.
Editor: Anthony Harvey.
Music: il Concerto n. 1 per piano di Brahms, John Barry.
Sound: George Stephenson.
Cast: Leslie Caron (Jane), Tom Bell (Toby), Brock Peters (Johnny), Cicely Courtneidge (Mavis), Emlyn Williams (il dr. Weaver), Bernard Lee (Charlie), Avis Bunnage (Doris), Patricia Phoenix (Sonia), Verity Edmett (Jane II).
Production company: James Woolf, Richard Attenborough per la Romulus.
