by Brian Brooks (September 13, 2007)
Director
Ken Loach's "
It's a Free World..." takes on the subject of immigrants who are used as cheap labor--this time in the European Union. The film revolves around Angie (
Kierston Wareing) who is layed off from a recruiting company and persuades her flatmate to begin their own business luring migrants from Eastern Europe. Her company flourishes and they operate on the 'margins of legality.' "I hope people come away with a sense of what's happening and the way we're allowing the world economy to develop," said Loach in Toronto to iW. "Abuse is built into the system. They're used as cheap labor and it's complete hypocrisy."