Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Country: GB/FR/BEL
Technical: col 101m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Ross Brewster
Synopsis:
An unemployed builder becomes a franchisee with a delivery company, hoping that it will give him a measure of independence, but consequent pressures on his family life lead instead to anxiety, conflict and spiralling debt.
Review:
Loach and Laverty turn their attention to that illusory symbol of freedom, the white van, and how once again the citizen is reduced to the status of an industrial unit, with the 'black box' scanner as controlling collar. The nuclear family is the first casualty of Ricky's pursuit of self-determination, and there is a measure of inevitability in Laverty's charting of cumulative calamity, even if it is given time to unfold. As usual, and quite rightly, the working man (and woman) is lionised for his emotional commitment to labour, even as unreason and immoderation prove his undoing. A depressing experience, without perhaps the customary felicities in the acting.
Country: GB/FR/BEL
Technical: col 101m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Ross Brewster
Synopsis:
An unemployed builder becomes a franchisee with a delivery company, hoping that it will give him a measure of independence, but consequent pressures on his family life lead instead to anxiety, conflict and spiralling debt.
Review:
Loach and Laverty turn their attention to that illusory symbol of freedom, the white van, and how once again the citizen is reduced to the status of an industrial unit, with the 'black box' scanner as controlling collar. The nuclear family is the first casualty of Ricky's pursuit of self-determination, and there is a measure of inevitability in Laverty's charting of cumulative calamity, even if it is given time to unfold. As usual, and quite rightly, the working man (and woman) is lionised for his emotional commitment to labour, even as unreason and immoderation prove his undoing. A depressing experience, without perhaps the customary felicities in the acting.
Country: GB/FR/BEL
Technical: col 101m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Ross Brewster
Synopsis:
An unemployed builder becomes a franchisee with a delivery company, hoping that it will give him a measure of independence, but consequent pressures on his family life lead instead to anxiety, conflict and spiralling debt.
Review:
Loach and Laverty turn their attention to that illusory symbol of freedom, the white van, and how once again the citizen is reduced to the status of an industrial unit, with the 'black box' scanner as controlling collar. The nuclear family is the first casualty of Ricky's pursuit of self-determination, and there is a measure of inevitability in Laverty's charting of cumulative calamity, even if it is given time to unfold. As usual, and quite rightly, the working man (and woman) is lionised for his emotional commitment to labour, even as unreason and immoderation prove his undoing. A depressing experience, without perhaps the customary felicities in the acting.