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FILM REVIEW: ‘Loving’
Poignant Period Piece Recounts the Forbidden Romance That Led to
Landmark Supreme Court Decision
By Kam Williams
Special to The Skanner News
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‘Inferno’
traumatized patient.
As it turns out, the hit
woman was part of a
much larger conspira-
cy. For, she was merely
doing the biddng of Ber-
trand Zobrist (Foster),
an evil billionaire on the
verge of hatching a dis-
turbing solution for the
world’s overpopulation
problem.
Essentially,
the madman’s plan is to
unleash a lethal virus
designed to kill half the
people on the planet in
less than a week.
That sets the stage for
Langdon and Sienna’s
dizzying race against
time to unearth a cornu-
copia of clues enabling
them to track down and
disarm the diabolical Zo-
brist. That in a nutshell
is the sum and substance
of “Inferno,” except for a
humdinger of a twist it
would be unfair to spoil.
Easily, the most acces-
sible, engaging, enter-
taining and cinematic ad-
aptation of a Dan Brown
thriller yet!
Very Good HHH
Rated PG-13 for action,
violence, profanity, dis-
turbing images, mature
themes and brief sensu-
ality
In English, French and
Italian with subtitles
Running time: 126 min.
To see a trailer for Infer-
no, go to TheSkanner.com.
ildred Jeter (Ruth Negga)
and Richard Loving (Joel
Edgerton) committed a
crime just by falling in
love when they were in the bloom
of youth back in 1958. That’s be-
cause she was Black and he was
White, and they were living in
Virginia, one of the many South-
ern states with anti-miscegnation
laws still on the books forbidding
cohabitation, marriage, procre-
ation or even sexual relations
across racial lines.
Nevertheless, Richard was so
smitten he proposed and, after
Mildred accepted, he purchased
a vacant plot of land where he
promised to build their dream
home. However, when it came to
time to wed, they had to travel
north to Washington, D.C., a city
where they could secure a mar-
riage license.
Upon returning to their tiny
hometown of Central Point, they
were promptly arrested during a
nighttime raid staged by police-
men tipped off about the recent
nuptials. They charged the cou-
ple with violating section 20-58 of
Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, a
felony punishable with up to five
years in prison.
‘Loving’ tells the true story of a couple that committed a crime by falling in love in 1958
The Lovings were ultimately
convicted, but fled to the District
of Columbia rather than serve
their sentences, especially since
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to live, if it weren’t for state-sanc-
tioned racial intolerance.
Five years later, their plight
came to the attention of Bernie
They were promptly arrested during
a nighttime raid staged by policemen
tipped off about the recent nuptials.
Mildred was expecting their first
child by then. What a tragedy it
was for them not only to be fugi-
tives of justice, but to be forced to
start their family in a strange big
city, when they already had a place
Cohen (Nick Kroll) and Phil Hir-
shkop (Jon Bass) attorneys with
the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU). The lawyers talk-
ed Mildred and Richard into lend-
See LOVING on page 11