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Description:Carla's Song is the latest film by acclaimed British director Ken Loach, whose Land and Freedom was one of the most enthusiastically received films of 1995, winning a number of prizes (including the International Critics' Prize at Cannes in 1995 and , in the same year, what may well be the last Felix as Best European Film of the Year).
Very much on the same scale as Land and Freedom, Carla's Song is a love story with a political background - a film about a journey that begins on a Glasgow bus and ends in Nicaragua amid the gunfire and explosions of war.
From an original screenplay by Paul Laverty, Carla's Song tells the story of the relationship between George, a free-spirited Scottish bus driver, and Carla, a refugee from Nicaragua who is adrift in Glasgow. The year is 1987 and, in Carla's home country, the Contra rebels are mounting their final, lethal assault against the Sandinista government.
Carla at first resists George's attentions. He persists, fascinated both by her beatuty and by the mystery he senses in her past. Finally, he sees no alternative but to return to Nicarague with her. "It is", says Loach, " a film about the possibilities of people when they decide they will be together".
Credits:
Directed by Ken Loach