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The L-Shaped Room
Why this pick
Like A Taste of Honey, it finds tenderness and defiance in a young woman’s unglamorous urban life, using a close, socially alert realism rather than melodrama.
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MOVIE1961 1h 40m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Why this pick
Another sharp British New Wave portrait of working-class dissatisfaction, with an abrasive young protagonist, vivid industrial surroundings, and a restless drive for freedom.
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Poor Cow
Why this pick
Ken Loach’s loose, immediate style and Carol White’s exposed performance make this a similarly tough but humane study of a young woman negotiating poverty, love, and motherhood.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story is set in a run-down, post-industrial area of Salford. Jo (played by Rita Tushingham) is a 17-year-old schoolgirl, with a self-centred, 40-year-old mother with a drink problem, Helen (Dora Bryan).. After a fall while walking past the Manchester Ship Canal, Jo meets a black sailor called Jimmy (Paul Danquah) who invites her onboard his ship to attend to her grazed knee. The two accidentally meet again and start a brief romantic relationship, but Jimmy's ship soon sails and they part. Relations between Jo and her mother become further strained when her mother courts and marries a self-made businessman, Peter Smith (Robert Stephens).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Paul Danquah
Jimmy
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham