SORRY WE MISSED YOU
****
Dir: Ken Loach (15, 101 mins)
Ken Loach returns after the heartbreaking I, Daniel Blake with another social polemic, this time about the cruelties of the gig economy, zero hours contracts and the effect it has on family life. Kris Hitchen plays Ricky, a hard worker who takes on a gig as a delivery van driver, but only gets paid when he delivers for the likes of faceless corporations like Amazon. He buys a van, with the promise of easy money to come, but soon the job has taken over his life as he struggles to make ends meet. His wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood) is a care worker struggling via public transport to visit her ‘clients’ – elderly people with real needs – whilst parenting by mobile phone. The children are getting into trouble at school or having to see to themselves as the parents struggle to break even. The sheer weight of capitalism and the havoc it inflicts on working-class families is angrily attacked by Loach, screenwriter Paul Laverty and a uniformly excellent cast.
Opens Nov 1
words KEIRON SELF
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