It's a free world
| Movie | |
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| German title | It's a free world |
| Original title | It's a Free World ... |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Italy , Germany , Spain |
| original language | English , Polish |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ken Loach |
| script | Paul Laverty |
| production | Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien |
| music | George Fenton |
| camera | Nigel Willoughby |
| cut | Jonathan Morris |
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It's a Free World is a socially critical feature film directed by Ken Loach in 2007 .
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The film begins with insights into numerous job placement interviews. A British employment agency is looking for workers in Poland for the English market. One of the recruitment agencies is Angie. In the evening flirting in a bar with Karol, a young Poland , as colleagues call them at their table. Her boss has a possessive hand on her bum, she feels harassed and pours his drink on his face. The next day she left her job. But Angie does not want to let herself be beaten down and decides to set up a temporary employment agency herself . Rose, her roommate, who previously worked in a call center , is supposed to help her. Rose has concerns, but agrees to do so. A friend made the courtyard of his restaurant available as a pick-up point. Angie gets herself a motorcycle that becomes her trademark - from now on, with blonde hair fluttering from under her helmet, she speeds from company to company. Above all, it is Polish and other Eastern European workers whom Angie places with increasing success on a weekly, daily or hourly basis. Rose does the bookkeeping for her. Very soon foreigners without papers also approach them. Angie shows a heart with an Iranian and takes him and his family into her home temporarily, although Rose urgently advises her not to get involved with illegals.
In addition to the business, Angie also has to take care of her 11-year-old son Jamie, who beat up a schoolmate. Jamie grew up with Angie's retired parents. He misses his mother. The grandparents become the moral authority, and Angie tries to make up for what she neglects as a mother with money. One day one of the employers "supplied" by Angie goes broke. The wages for the angry Polish workers are withheld. Karol, her Polish flirt, who was also cheated, helps her as an interpreter, but cannot prevent her from being knocked down and kicked one evening by angry workers.
Despite these events, Angie becomes more and more unscrupulous. She smells a huge deal with illegal Ukrainians . In order to create a place to live for her, she turned over the residents of a trailer park, including the Iranian family she knew, to the police. Rose cannot and does not want to support this anymore. There is a final break between the friends.
At the urging of her parents, she takes Jamie to her for a few days, but she can't think of anything more than watching brutal television movies with him. One evening Jamie disappears when he opens the pizza delivery man. Angie is looking for him. When she returned to her unlocked apartment, she was attacked, tied up and gagged by three Eastern Europeans who had been cheated out of their wages. They threaten to harm their son and take away all of the illegally hoarded money. Angie promises them to pay the rest of the missing wages - Jamie gets it back in one piece.
The last pictures show Angie in Kiev, how she recruits cold Ukrainian workers for bribes for the English job market.
Reviews
- “The real bad guy in this piece is the system that corrupts people's souls, enables them to act like Angie. The way Ken Loach does this is admirable and characterized by long experience. His film is told quickly, effectively and fluently. The dialogues are very funny. With a light hand they condense complicated processes again and again into small, precise sketches that are differentiated and yet at the same time intensify a problem without cheap partisanship. " ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung )
- Ken Loach "manages to show the double face of his superwoman who, with her vigorous existence, arouses feelings of solidarity on the one hand, but also just as much disgust with her unscrupulous goings-on." ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung )
Awards
It's a Free World celebrated its world premiere at the 64th Venice Film Festival , where it around the competition Golden Lion was represented and Kierston Wareing for the Coppa Volpi as Best Actress was traded. Although the film and leading actress lost out to Ang Lee's thriller Danger and Desire or the later Oscar- nominated Australian Cate Blanchett ( I'm Not There ), It's a Free World was awarded the Golden Osella for best screenplay, the EIUC - and SIGNIS Award honored. In the same year Wareing received two nominations for the British Independent Film Awards , while in 2008 a nomination for the British television award BAFTA followed.
Web links
- It's a Free World in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official German website
Individual evidence
- ^ A stroke of luck: "It's a Free World" - video film review by Rüdiger Suchsland on faz.net, November 27, 2008
- ↑ Feldvoss, Marli: All the chains blown up . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 6, 2007, No. 206, p. 49
- ↑ Suspense avant la remise du 64e Lion d'or à Venise, Kechiche grand favori (PAPIER GENERAL) , Agence France-Presse, 8 September 2007
- ↑ signis.net [1] ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
