Selection Semi-Officielle 08 / Director: Ken Loach
It's a Free World
Laverty starts off strong with a sequence that introduces us to feisty Londoner Angie (newcomer Kierston Wareing), just days before she is fired from the recruitment agency where she works, an ironic twist of fate that drives Angie to set up her own agency for foreign labourers with her best friend and fl atmate Rose (Juliet Ellis). Though swearing to do everything legally as soon as they have made some money, things quickly go from bad to worse as Angie slips into exploiting the very people she initially wanted to help, with Rose relegated to the Jimminy Cricket role of her conscience.
– BOYD VAN HOEIJ, EUROPEAN FILMS NET