The L-Shaped Room Blu-ray
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Posted October 12, 2017 04:04 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Bryan Forbes' film The L-Shaped Room (1962), starring Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, and Avis Bunnage. The release will be available for purchase on November 27.
The new restoration of The L-Shaped Room will be screened on October 14 and 15 at BFI Southbank, London, with Leslie Caron and Lynne Reid Banks in attendance.
Synopsis: In an Academy Award nominated performance, Leslie Caron (Gigi) portrays Jane, a young pregnant French girl who moves to a seedy boarding house in London for a new start. Beautiful and withdrawn, Jane slowly gets to know the other residents of the house who, like her, are social outsiders in their own way. As she falls into a relationship with Toby (Tom Bell) a struggling young writer who lives on the first floor and befriends Johnny (Brock Peters, To Kill a Mockingbird) a black jazz musician, Jane finds a new reason to live. She considers getting an abortion but is unhappy with this solution. Eventually she comes to like her odd L-Shaped room, but still faces two problems: what to do with her baby, and what to do with Toby.
Based on the hugely successful book, written by Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room is a British classic, written and directed by Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind, The Raging Moon).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The new restoration of The L-Shaped Room will be screened on October 14 and 15 at BFI Southbank, London, with Leslie Caron and Lynne Reid Banks in attendance.
Synopsis: In an Academy Award nominated performance, Leslie Caron (Gigi) portrays Jane, a young pregnant French girl who moves to a seedy boarding house in London for a new start. Beautiful and withdrawn, Jane slowly gets to know the other residents of the house who, like her, are social outsiders in their own way. As she falls into a relationship with Toby (Tom Bell) a struggling young writer who lives on the first floor and befriends Johnny (Brock Peters, To Kill a Mockingbird) a black jazz musician, Jane finds a new reason to live. She considers getting an abortion but is unhappy with this solution. Eventually she comes to like her odd L-Shaped room, but still faces two problems: what to do with her baby, and what to do with Toby.
Based on the hugely successful book, written by Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room is a British classic, written and directed by Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind, The Raging Moon).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW RESTORATION of the film
- NEW interview with Leslie Caron
- NEW interview with author Lynne Reid Banks
- The L-Shaped Room and the British New Wave - featurette
- Stills Gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
