There are two Erics in ''Looking for Eric.'' One is Eric Bishop (Steve Evets), a middle-aged Manchester, England, postal worker whose existence has been a chronicle of hardship and disappointment, much of it self-inflicted. We first see him driving the wrong way around a traffic circle, as if trying to outrun decades of accumulated anxiety. The...
IN Andrea Arnold's new film, ''Fish Tank,'' an unsmiling 15-year-old named Mia (Katie Jarvis), who lives in a housing project in Essex, in England, becomes close to the boyfriend of her uncaring mother. The man, an Irish charmer named Connor, played by Michael Fassbender, gives her money and lends her his video camera so that she can tape herself...
It's a free world, Ken Loach asserts in his latest film with well-practiced disgust and unfortunately little hope. This being a Loach film, it's also a cruel world, populated by capitalist tools and fools, schemers and dreamers of every stripe, accent and ethnicity. In ''It's a Free World ...'' it's the war of all against all yet again, this time...
Kenneth Loach (født 17. juni 1936), kendt som Ken Loach, er en engelsk tv- og filminstruktør, kendt for sin socialrealistiske stil og socialistiske temaer.