A gentle and subtle drama about interracial marriage way back in the 1950s and how the condemnation of the couple prompted the Supreme Court to slightly alter the US Constitution. Ruth Negga is affectionate and full of hope as Mildred Jeter, an African American woman in Virginia who marries a white man, Richard Loving, played by that Australian actor who has terrific range, Joel Edgerton. Richard hardly speaks in the movie; with only a handful of the screenplay's lines to his name, he mostly communicates with mumbles and growls. The movie never explores much of their relationship on a personal level, as we only see them holding one another for long periods of time. Still, Loving is a considerate movie about a subject that typically gets a rougher treatment, but in Jeff Nichols' hands not even the racist police nor the bigot judge appear as villainous as they should.
B
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