GREAT BRITAIN
1993 – DCP – color – 90’

Regia Direction: Ken Loach

Sceneggiatura Screenplay: Jim Allen

Fotografia Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd

Montaggio Editing: Jonathan Morris

Scenografia Set design: Martin Johnson

Musica Music: Stewart Copeland

Costumi Costumes: Anne Sinclair

Interpreti Cast: Bruce Jones (Bob), Julia Brown (Anne), Gemma Phoenix (Coleen), Rick Tomlison (Tommy), Tom Hickey (Padre Barry), Mike Fallon (Jimmy)

Produttrice Producer: Sally Hibbin

Produzione Production: Parallax Pictures, Channel Four Films

SINOPSIS

In Manchester, at the height of the economic crisis, Bob and his best friend Tommy do whatever they can to earn something to take home, including undeniably less-than-legal acts like stealing sheep, plumbing pipes or sods of grass from government lawns to sell to people who don’t ask too many questions. Bob also has a wife, Anne, who can’t keep a job because she’s rather unskilled, and a daughter, Coleen, who is about to receive her first communion and dreams of a brand-new white dress and a nice party. It is his little girl’s dream that prompts Bob to take out a loan, which is passed on to a local loan shark, not realizing how much trouble he is about to get into.

Nota critica

“As a radical leftist, Loach does not indulge in populist Manichaeism; he avoids polemical overstatements as well as the rigid structure of an argument, not sacrificing form for content even if his writing appears seemingly unpolished. (…) The level of cinematic development of ethical and social themes is extremely high. In an hour and a half, Loach and Allen manage to convey not only the economic crisis depicted by unemployment, poverty and frustrations, the right to work and a desire for justice, but also usury, drugs, declining values, the horrendous world of nightclubs and the future without ideals or hope for younger generations.” (Morando Morandini, Il Giorno, 24/10/1993)

PREMI E FESTIVAL

1993 Cannes Film Festival – Competition:  Jury Prize (shared with ex-aequo con Hsimeng Rensheng di by Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
1994 Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain:  Best Foreign Film
1994 Evening Standard British Film Awards:Best Film, Screenplay
1994 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics: Best Foreign Film
1994 London Critics Circle Film Awards:British Director of the Year
1994 Nastri d’Argento Silver Ribbons:European Silver Ribbon

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