The L-Shaped Room (1962)

Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Bryan Forbes

Writers: Bryan Forbes, Lynne Reid Banks

Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe

Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix, Gerald Sim, Emlyn Williams

An unmarried pregnant 27-year-old French woman, who has yet to decide whether to keep her baby or not, moves into a crumbling boarding house, filled with fellow misfits and outcasts, and forms a number of friendships, including a tentative romance with a struggling young writer, in Forbes’s gentle, touching, and beautifully acted coming-of-age tale. Iain.Stott