The L-Shaped Room. The plot is frayed from use and old age, the characters are mostly Characters, and the sound track turns on a spigot marked Brahms to cue every tender moment. But L-Shaped Room shrugs off these shortcomings to become a beautiful and refreshing film. Part of the credit goes to Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of...
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