It's a Free World...
- Kierston Wareing: Angie
- Juliet Ellis: Rose
- Leslaw Zurek: Karol
- Joe Siffleet: Jamie
- Colin Caughlin: Geoff
- Maggie Russell: Cathy
- Raymond Mearns: Andy
It's a Free World is a socially critical film directed by Ken Loach from the year 2007.
Action
The film begins with glimpses of numerous job placement talks. A UK recruitment agency is looking for labor in Poland for the English market. One of the employment agencies is Angie. In the evening flirting in a bar with Karol, a young Pole, as colleagues call them at their table. Your boss puts her possessive hand on the butt, she feels harassed and pours his drink into his face. The next day she is going on her job. But Angie does not want to let get down and decides to start a staffing agency itself. This is Rose, her roommate, who has previously worked in a call center, help her. Rose has concerns, but then declared ready. A friend is the court his restaurant as a pick-up place. Angie lies down next to a motorcycle that is her trademark - with hervorflatterndem under the helmet Blonde hair she sprayed from now on, from company to company. There are weekly, daily, or hourly conveys with increasing success mainly Polish and other Eastern European workers, Angie. Rose makes the accounting for them. Very soon also occur undocumented aliens up to her. In an Iranian Angie shows a heart and takes him and his family temporarily to live with him, although her rose strongly advise against to engage in illegal.
Angie has to take care in addition to the business and to their 11- year-old son Jamie, who has beaten up a classmate. Jamie grew up with Angie's parents retired. He lacks the mother. The grandparents are a moral authority, and Angie tries to compensate with money, which they failed as a mother. One day makes one of Angie with workers " supplied " employer broke. The reward for the angry Polish workers will be retained. Karol, her Polish Flirt, who was also cheated, helps her as an interpreter, but can not prevent them from being deposited by disgruntled workers one evening and kicked.
Despite these events, Angie will always be unscrupulous. She senses a huge business with illegal Ukrainians. In order to create living space for her, she delivers the residents of a caravan place, including on the known Iranian family, the police. Rose can not and will not endorse it. It comes to the final break between the girlfriends.
At the urging of her parents, she takes Jamie a few days, but to see more than violent television movies with him, you can not think. One evening disappears Jamie as he opens the pizza delivery. Angie is looking for it. When she returns in their unfinished home, she is attacked, bound and gagged by three cheated out of their wages Eastern Europeans. It threatens to do to her son something and take the entire unlawfully hoarded money. Angie promises to them, even to pay the remaining missing wage yet - Jamie then gets back safely.
The last pictures show Angie in Kiev, as she enlists freezing Ukrainian workers against bribe for the British labor market.
Reviews
- " The real villain in this piece is the system that corrupts the soul of the people, bringing them into the situation, so act like Angie. As Ken Loach does, is admirable and shaped by experience. His film is told quickly, effectively and fluently. The dialogues have great wit. With a light hand they condense complicated operations repeatedly to small, precise sketches, which are differentiated and yet at the same time worsen a problem without cheap partisanship. "(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
- Ken Loach "but it manages to show the double face of his super woman, but also arouses as much disgust with their vigorous existence as solidary feelings with her unscrupulous activity. " (Neue Zürcher Zeitung )
Awards
It's a Free World celebrated its premiere at the 64th Film Festival in Venice, where he was represented in the competition for the Golden Lion and Kierston Wareing for the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress was traded. Although had film and lead actress opposite Ang Lee's thriller Lust, Caution or the later Oscar -nominated Australian Cate Blanchett ( I'm Not There ) in the cold, but it was It's a Free World with the Golden Osella for Best Screenplay, the EIUC and SIGNIS Award honors. In the same year Wareing received two nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, during 2008, a nomination for the British BAFTA TV award followed.