Bread and Roses (film)

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Bread and Roses
Directed by	Ken Loach
Starring	Pilar Padilla Adrien Brody Elpidia Carrillo
Release date(s)	2000
Running time	110 min.
Country	U.K. / France / Germany / Spain / Italy / Switzerland
Language	English / Spanish
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Bread and Roses is a 2000 film directed by Ken Loach, starring Adrien Brody. The plot deals with the struggle of poorly paid cleaners in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize.

The film is critical of inequalities in the US, health insurance in particular is highlighted and it is also claimed in the film that the pay of cleaners and other low paying jobs has declined in recent years.

The film's name, "Bread and Roses", derives from the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Though the phrase comes from a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim, it is commonly associated with the Lawrence strike, which united dozens of immigrant communities, led to a large extent by women, under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World.

[edit] Awards and nominations

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Award at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in 2000. In 2001, it was nominated for the Artios award of the Casting Society of America, for the British Independent Film Awards for Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won the Phoenix Prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. In 2002, it was nominated for four ALMA Awards, of which it won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Elpidia Carrillo) and also won the Imagen Award for Best Theatrical Feature Film of the Imagen Foundation Awards.

[edit] External links

Ken Loach
1960s	Poor Cow \| Kes
1970s	The Save the Children Fund Film \| Family Life \| Black Jack
1980s	The Gamekeeper \| Looks and Smiles \| Which Side Are You On?
1990s	Fatherland \| Hidden Agenda \| Riff-Raff \| Raining Stones \| Ladybird Ladybird \| Land and Freedom \| A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership \| Carla's Song \| The Flickening Flame \| My Name Is Joe
2000s	Bread and Roses \| The Navigators \| Sweet Sixteen \| Ae Fond Kiss... \| Tickets \| The Wind That Shakes the Barley