Bread And Roses

2000, Movie, R, 105 mins

Bread And Roses: Review

The opening sequence of director Ken Loach's latest piece of well-meaning agit-prop is ominously headache inducing — a montage of Mexican migrant workers crossing the California border, shot with some of the most annoying hand-held camera moves since THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Fortunately, the film quickly becomes something more enjoyable, if not necessarily more original: It's a 21st-century, barrio update of NORMA RAE (1979). Here the initially politically unformed heroi... read more leave a comment