Bread and Roses (2000)
Country: GB/GER/SP/FR/IT
Technical: col 110m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis:
A Mexican girl smuggles herself across the border to join her sister in Los Angeles and becomes committed to a union worker's attempts to bring the cleaners of her building under the protection of the Janitors' Union.
Review:
As usual Loach mixes a left-wing message with troubled relationships and comic trimmings, though this was an unusually promiscuous project so he should be given credit for preserving his voice. It is authentically acted with the camera at a respectful distance, though with customarily creaky improvisations from non-professionals, and avoids possible charges of double standards by having its wetback heroine shipped back to Tijuana at the end for robbery.
Country: GB/GER/SP/FR/IT
Technical: col 110m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis:
A Mexican girl smuggles herself across the border to join her sister in Los Angeles and becomes committed to a union worker's attempts to bring the cleaners of her building under the protection of the Janitors' Union.
Review:
As usual Loach mixes a left-wing message with troubled relationships and comic trimmings, though this was an unusually promiscuous project so he should be given credit for preserving his voice. It is authentically acted with the camera at a respectful distance, though with customarily creaky improvisations from non-professionals, and avoids possible charges of double standards by having its wetback heroine shipped back to Tijuana at the end for robbery.
Country: GB/GER/SP/FR/IT
Technical: col 110m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis:
A Mexican girl smuggles herself across the border to join her sister in Los Angeles and becomes committed to a union worker's attempts to bring the cleaners of her building under the protection of the Janitors' Union.
Review:
As usual Loach mixes a left-wing message with troubled relationships and comic trimmings, though this was an unusually promiscuous project so he should be given credit for preserving his voice. It is authentically acted with the camera at a respectful distance, though with customarily creaky improvisations from non-professionals, and avoids possible charges of double standards by having its wetback heroine shipped back to Tijuana at the end for robbery.