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Road, The: A Story Of Life And Death
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The latest film from acclaimed documentarian Marc lsaacs (All White in Barking; Men of the City) offers a fascinating and intimate insight into the lives of peopIe who have come to London from afar and struggled to make the city their home.
Isaacs introduces a diverse number of characters who have made their way to London, from aIl over the worId, in order to seek a better life. There's a young lrish woman who dreams of becoming a singer, who takes a job puIling pints in CrickIewood, serving the generations of lrish peopIe who came over before her; a loneIy lrish ex construction worker Ioosing his battle to booze; a man from Kashmir working in a hotel, trying to earn enough money so his wife can join him; an elderIy Jewish woman who fled Vienna when Hitler was in power; and a glamorous retired German air stewardess Iiving with her estranged husband.
Fused with wonderfuI moments of humour and equaIly heartbreaking moments where broken dreams are revealed, The Road: A Story of Life and Death is a study of immigration that manages to be highIy affecting, whiIst avoiding being poIemical or didactic. |
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