UK/France/Belgium, 2019, Ken Loach

Master British filmmaker Ken Loach, two-time winner of the top prize at Cannes, is the cinema’s most ardent advocate for ordinary workers. (Film Comment hails him as “the Bernie Sanders of filmmakers.”) Loach’s highly acclaimed new film (88% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes) explores the gig economy through a riveting account of a desperate British family man who risks everything to become an independent contractor for a package delivery company. But “being your own boss’ is not everything it’s cracked up to be. Penned by Loach’s longtime screenwriter Paul Laverty, this English-language film will be shown with much-needed subtitles (which were missing during its recent run as part of CIFF44 Streams). “A drama of such searing human empathy and quotidian heartbreak that its powerful climactic scenes actually impede your breathing.” –Hollywood Reporter. 101 min.

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