Ladybird, Ladybird (film)

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Ladybird, Ladybird is a 1994 movie directed by Ken Loach.

It is a drama-documentary about a British woman's dispute with Social Services over the care and custody of her four children. The title comes from a traditional nursery verse. It won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival

A film reviewer said:

Loach's film, though fictionalized, is based on true events, and... brings a documentarian's restraint to material that is almost unbearably anguished. The narrative may have its Kafka-esque qualities, but the vision is more that of a muckraker than a surrealist. It gets at you by piling up unbearable details.

Anothercommentator said:

Although this is a movie that you don't want to see very often, because of the topic... it is a movie that everybody must see!