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A 27-year-old French woman, Jane Fosset, arrives alone at a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London, moving into an L-shaped room in the attic. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay, black trumpeter.
The L-Shaped Room is a 1960 British novel by Lynne Reid Banks which tells the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It was adapted into a film, with significant differences from the novel, by Bryan Forbes.
Jane (Leslie Caron) 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 ...
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The eponymous l-shaped room is the room Jane rents in a run-down rooming house after her father kicks her out because of her pregnancy. When she arrives, it's about as grim as it could be. But slowly, through her own work and through accepting the help of others, Jane improves the room until it's a home - a home totally of her own.
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Jane, a young French unmarried mother-to-be, takes a room in a seedy London boardinghouse that is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, then rethinks this solution. She falls into a relationship with Toby, a struggling young writer who stays on the first floor.
The L-Shaped Room: Directed by Bryan Forbes. With Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix. A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
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.
An unwed mother-to-be in London, lives in a squalid L-shaped room in a boarding house, and finds companionship and love. When her pregnancy is discovered, the young man leaves. From the book by Lunne Reid Banks.
Bryan Forbes. Featuring. Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage. Running time. 142 minutes. Features from as little as £2.50, become a BFI Member to get a discount.
