“Loving” (** out of four) was a curiously unmoving true story of Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) who were sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for being an interracial married couple and how this led to a landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 which overturned state laws and made interracial marriage legal. Well-acted and captures the aura and atmosphere of Southern politics and racial divide but limited in its emotional power and never as soaring or compelling as it could have- and should have- been. Even the ending which covers the historic court outcome is awfully subdued. Similar storyline of marriage and politics in the Old South was captured with more complexity and emotional fire in “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”, “Foreign Student”, and “The Long Walk Home.”

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