IT’S A FREE WORLD

UK, Italy, Germany & Spain/2007/English dialogue/Colour/35mm/96 mins

Angie (Kierston Wareing), a single mother with a young son, has been exploited and disappointed in every job she has held. Recently fired, she decides to become her own boss. Feisty, charming and ruthless, she persuades her gentle and timid friend Rose to join her new plan for survival: a London-based recruitment agency for illegal migrant workers. It operates in a twilight world where labour is cheap, laws are made to be ignored, and Angie’s amoral activities could easily jeopardize her life and that of her young son.

“With a script by Paul Laverty that took the Best Screenplay Award at Venice this year, Ken Loach tackles the plight of the hoards of Eastern European workers who provide cheap labour for the wealthier countries of the European Union. We are forced to wonder what happens when raw personal ambition and the rules of the blindingly competitive market economy outweigh all sense of respect or concern for ‘the other’. A lifelong social activist, Loach avoids obvious moralizing, but his outrage simmers close to the surface, and his canvas is filled with frightened and lost humanity.” – Hannah Fisher

Starring : Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Director(s) :

Ken Loach

KEN LOACH was born in 1936 in Nuneaton, England, and read law at Oxford University. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he has made dozens of socially committed dramas for cinema and television, tackling subjects as diverse as homelessness (the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home, 1966), the conflict in Northern Ireland (Hidden Agenda, 1990), the Spanish Civil War (Land and Freedom, 1995) and railway privatization (The Navigators, 2001).
Crew : Rebecca O'Brien(Producer), Paul Laverty(Scriptwriter), Nigel Willoughby(Cinematographer), Jonathan Morris(Editor), George Fenton(Composer)
Running Time : 96 mins
Country : United Kingdom
Programme : The Cultural Bridge
Venue : Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 2, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 2, Grand Cineplex 3
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