Arriving on DVD in the wake of its Channel 4 screening last month, Ken Loach’s latest sees the Kes director back on Riff-Raff territory with a telling critique of the everyday exploitation of migrant labour in today’s Britain. Fans of the veteran leftie’s work will spot parallels with 2000’s Bread And Roses. Ingeniously, however, Loach and regular writing collaborator Paul Laverty this time muddy the waters by making their instrument of oppression a vivacious single mother who, on another day, might easily be one of the filmmaker’s plucky working-class heroines.
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