Riff-Raff (1991)
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman
Synopsis:
A Glaswegian sleeping rough in London gets work on a construction site and begins a relationship with an aspiring young singer, but poor working conditions and support structures lead to despair and criminality.
Review:
Loach raises awareness of the plight of the barely skilled underclass in this so-called 'bittersweet comedy'. Carlyle got his first big part, and Ricky Tomlinson, whose character is the director's political mouthpiece, stepped off the scaffolding and into the acting business. A generation later little had changed, except perhaps for the ethnicity of the workforce.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman
Synopsis:
A Glaswegian sleeping rough in London gets work on a construction site and begins a relationship with an aspiring young singer, but poor working conditions and support structures lead to despair and criminality.
Review:
Loach raises awareness of the plight of the barely skilled underclass in this so-called 'bittersweet comedy'. Carlyle got his first big part, and Ricky Tomlinson, whose character is the director's political mouthpiece, stepped off the scaffolding and into the acting business. A generation later little had changed, except perhaps for the ethnicity of the workforce.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman
Synopsis:
A Glaswegian sleeping rough in London gets work on a construction site and begins a relationship with an aspiring young singer, but poor working conditions and support structures lead to despair and criminality.
Review:
Loach raises awareness of the plight of the barely skilled underclass in this so-called 'bittersweet comedy'. Carlyle got his first big part, and Ricky Tomlinson, whose character is the director's political mouthpiece, stepped off the scaffolding and into the acting business. A generation later little had changed, except perhaps for the ethnicity of the workforce.