Watch: It’s a Free World… 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times..
Plot: Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.
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Could have been better, but still an interesting and relevant story about what goes on today
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningAngie (Kierston Waring) is fired from her job after not taking any cr*p off her boss who pinches her bum in public. Understandably riled, she decides to play him at his own game and set up her own recruitment agency (the job she was fired from in the first place) and dole out jobs for immigrant workers who will work below the minimum wage. However, she soon learns in this cut throat game the people at the top control everything and when she finds herself unable to pay her ‘staff’, things get nasty. Angie is driven to become more ruthless and mercenary as the stakes get higher.
I must confess I don’t think I’ve seen a Ken Loach film before, but his style is hard to deny. Despite his work getting him noticed in Hollywood, his love for depicting British social realism has kept him firmly grounded on this side of the pond and by the looks of things, that’s that with him.
Though not telling a true story, this is similar to Nick Broomfield’s docu-drama Ghosts with it’s themes of cheap immigrant workers keeping our economy flowing and the sh*tty deal they are dealt, coming here thinking Britain is the land of prosperity only to find themselves in a situation not much better than if they’d stayed at home. Pretty depressing stuff but then, that’s what we do best and that’s the way things are. This is a film full of characters to feel sorry for, trapped in a system that makes them all go over the edge, from Angie who has a soft, caring side that allows her to take an Iranian family under her roof after discovering them living in poverty to a need to succeed that sees her reporting a rival camp of illegal workers so she can move her own in to, of course, the workers with a genuine desire to work and contribute something who end up going through all that cr*p for peanuts.
The relentlessly grim tone doesn’t make for a top viewing experience then, but this is still a relevant and interesting story that serves as great food for thought. ***
A very relevant film that portrays a very dark side to society!
This film captures perfectly one of the many faults of capitalism, it portrays an extremely sad situation of the desperate struggle that some people have everyday to earn money. In this case it follows the exploitation of foreign workers who came to England (London) in desperate search of work, and the lengths they will go earn money. The central character (Angie) played by Kierston Wareing is a self employed recruitment agent an ambitious and vibrant women who wont take no for an answer, she has a certain cheek and charm that is compelling and shows us some level of kindness, but also has a darker side which she has no problems in showing to people. Her friend and flatmate (Rose) played by Juliet Ellis is portrayed as the more rational minded and frankly kinder person, who relapses that sometimes it’s not always about the money. An inevitable twist of faith comes for Angie where she is put in the position of victim, but does this change her views on life?It is very well directed, showing the viewer the dull and bleak industrial estates and caravan parks of London which really suits the story and the depressive feel of the script.
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty done a great job with this film and like most of Loachs films is a striking and damning account of the depression to be found in working class England.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min) (Toronto International) (Canada)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Ken Loach
Writer Paul Laverty
Actors Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Country United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm