Ken Loach’s latest film, It’s a Free World premiered in Brooklyn last week and is now available On Demand on IFC’s Festival Direct. The director takes us from the world of The Wind That Shakes the Barley to a different time and place, present day London, to explore the world of foreign labor - legal and illegal.
Our companion on this journey is Angie (Kierston Wareing) a single mom who is trying to overcome being wrongly fired by a recruitment agency. The recruiting she had been doing was of workers from Eastern Europe to crappy, low paying jobs in London. Upon her termination Angie decides she can run her own recruiting business and after convincing her housemate Rose to help her, Angie is out on a motorbike trying to draw up contracts with local factories. Most of the men she tries to get deals with warn her of the dark side of this world, but as we get to know Angie, we realize that a warning could never stop her.
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