Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.
Acting
Kierston Wareing's spiral from desperation to predatory confidence.
Direction
Loach's unflinching handheld intimacy, no score, no escape.
Director
Ken Loach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loach cast non-professional actors and real undocumented workers; several cast members had lived the exploitation depicted. The 'authenticity' you're feeling is lived trauma.
The title references the Sex Pistols' 'Anarchy in the UK'—the 'free world' here is Thatcher's Britain, where deregulation meant freedom to prey. The irony is the whole point.
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