A Kind of Loving (Una maniera d'amare) - John Schlesinger

è una storia d'amore, nell'Inghilterra degli anni '60 (non troppo diversa dai film milanesi di quegli anni di Ermanno Olmi, penso a I fidanzati e Il posto), con un giovane, e già bravissimo, Alan Bates.

i due fidanzati, Ingrid e Vic, sono due imbranati di un'epoca lontana dai nostri tempi, innamorati, ma spesso mancano loro le parole.

appare, in un ruolo da assassina dell'amore, la suocera.

non perdetevi questo gioiellino - Ismaele

ps: bellissima la citazione di un gran film di quei mesi, in un cinema danno Victim di Basil Dearden, con Dirk Bogarde.

 

…It is a tribute to Schlesinger's skill with actors and with narrative that we retain an interest in their story, even though neither of the couple is sympathetic. Vic may be intelligent, but he is also a self-regarding, misogynistic whiner who lacks empathy, even when Ingrid loses her baby. Ingrid is petty and dim, unable to think beyond the next episode of 'Call Dr. Martin' or the snob value of her furniture. Yet both are caught up in a wider problem where unwanted pregnancies occur and lead to loveless marriages.

There are tensions between desire, responsibility and social acceptance that are not easily resolved. While the moral climate it depicts has largely changed, A Kind of Loving remains an interesting and rewarding film, which dares to accept that there are not necessarily any easy answers to the questions it poses…

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…Bates gives an outstanding performance as a cheeky but confused young adult. Bert Palmer and Gwen Nelson play Bates’ folksy working-class parents as if they were his real down-to-earth parents. The tense class-conscious kitchen sink drama draws out a bittersweet story of working-class types caught between striving to conform and yearning to escape their fate by going off the reservation, as Schlesinger never patronizes the struggling couple but views their plight sympathetically.

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