Bread And Roses (DVD)

Ken Loach’s reassuring presence has been with us for a long time now. In the 35 years since he first entered the national conscience by telling unpalatable truths in Cathy Come Home he has stuck to his principles with a remarkable persistence, ignoring changes in intellectual or aesthetic fashion. This makes him a very rare commodity in British cinema - a director who really has never sold out. His films have been unashamedly dedicated to exposing injustice and speaking for marginalised and deprived people. Bread and Roses represents a departure because, after all these years, Loach has decamped to Los Angeles. Fortunately, he seems to get a closer ...

Bread and Roses Year: 2000 Director:Ken Loach Main cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee et al Bread and Roses is a film that deep down has a sincere moral issue at heart, and delves briefly into much politically incorrect treatment of low paid labour workforce. Targeting the wide-spread exploitation on the non-union labourers in order to save the tight, already wealthy upper-hierarchy chiefs a few measly pounds. Set in Los Angeles, the film commences with a young Mexican girl desperately tempting to breach border control and enter the USA as an Illegal immigrant. Having yearned all her life for a chance at ...

If there's one name most associated with gritty British drama with a social conscience, it's Ken Loach. However, he has in recent years visited places such as Spain and Nicaragua. You may therefor be surprised to find his latest film is set in Los Angeles. His social conscience remains intact, as this film is about the mainly immigrant office cleaners that work there, and their fight against poor working conditions. The film follows Maya (Pilar Padilla), a Mexican woman who crosses the border to join her sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo) in LA. After briefly experiencing the joys of life as a waitress in a seedy bar, she persuades her sister to help her ...