

The L-Shaped Room
Sex is not a forbidden word
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
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- Language
- English
- immigrant
- london, england
- pregnancy
- boarding house
- landlady
- living alone
- kitchen sink realism
- french woman
- unplanned pregnancy
- social convention
- budding romance
- abortionist
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- Theatrical20 Nov 1962
RussiaSU
- Theatrical19 Jul 1965
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The L-Shaped Room was released on 20 November 1962.
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CinemaSerf
11/6/2022
Leslie Caron is really good in this rather quirky tale of a French lass who, pregnant, takes up residence in a pretty grotty London boarding house. Initially wary of the other "guests", "Jane" befriends aspiring writer"Toby" (Tom Bell) and the film depicts her lively relationship with him and her assimilation into this curious group of individuals whom she gradually begins to get used to. There are two things that he…
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