Riff-Raff
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
Robert Carlyle
Stevie
Emer McCourt
Susan
George Moss
Mo
Jimmy Coleman
Shem
Ricky Tomlinson
Larry
Avis de la communauté (3)
What a brilliant movie. All the elements are balances perfect - comedy, politics, plot and character development. As much as enjoyed Loaches latest movie I Daniel Blake, this is just more focused. I thought the rats in the movie were symbolic and worked well. The Loach has always nailed these movies I think shows his heart is in the right place and he want to always tell a story that has a real social point to make. Being set on site is perfect. I started work in the late 90s and work places were simular to this, and they were completely different to a few years later on. The poor and working class in Loach movies are not just raunchy animals in the pub where their onoy fun is alcohol like in other movies that try to be gritty.
A pretty good and excellently payed social critique about poverty and social exclusion in the UK.
It is a denouncing British society.