Posts Tagged ‘immigrants’
Immigrant workers - Ken’s take
Written by James on January 16, 2008 – 10:38 am -
Picturenose’s James Drew had the opportunity for a brief chat with director Ken Loach on his recent visit to Brussels, as his hard-hitting indictment on the realities of life for immigrant workers in the UK, It’s A Free World… arrives in Belgium.
Tags: Cathy Come Home, exploitation, immigrants, It's A Free World, Juliet Ellis, Ken Loach, Kierston Wareing, Leslaw Zurek, Polish, workers
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It’s a Free World…(2007)
Written by James on January 15, 2008 – 1:39 pm -
Sobering slant on exploiters and exploited
Long-recognised, from writing Cathy Come Home (1966) onwards, as one of the most uncompromising directors around when it comes to educating audiences about social injustices, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it’s virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
Tags: exploitation, immigrants, It's a Free World...(2007), Juliet Ellis, Ken Loach, Kierston Wareing, Leslaw Zurek, Polish, workers
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