A Kind of Loving

The playing Is good, John Schlesinger's direction (and his use of evocative backgrounds) is efficient. But the plot Is a bit frayed.

Neither Vic nor Ingrid is an especially compelling presence, but the actors make the sad moments pierce and the bursts of jubilation explode.

Alan Bates is at his handsome, wickedly charming peak in A Kind of Loving.

This is a compelling snapshot of Britain before the Sixties began to swing.

I was, and still am, deeply moved by the plight of both Vic and Ingrid in their attempt to find happiness and 'a kind of loving'.

June Ritchie makes an appealing debut as the bewildered Lancashire lass. Alan Bates is a likeable hero who will hold most audience's sympathy despite his weaknesses.

Alan Bates and June Ritchie are almost painfully true-to-life as the newlyweds, with Thora Hird as the bride's resentful mama.

The acting is firm, exact and sympathetic.

One of the greatest achievements of the marriage between 'angry young man' drama and the Free Cinema movement in Britain in the early 1960s

A moving portrait of the bumps on the road in a relationship.