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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 23, 1999
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Fox Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Carlyle & Scott Glenn | |
Performer: | Oyanka Cabezas | |
Directed by | Ken Loach | |
Edited by | Jonathan Morris | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Laverty | |
Composition by | George Fenton | |
Produced by | Sally Hibbin | |
Director of Photography: | Barry Ackroyd |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Oyanka Cabezas is an absolute revelation as Carla: unbelievably subdued and melancholic in Glasgow, yet she comes alive with vivacity and passion on arriving in Nicaragua.
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Patrick Nabarro
...Heartfelt and humane...
Chicago Sun-Times
...Carlyle is an actor of formidable concentration and expressiveness...
Los Angeles Times
Ken Loach's most logistically ambitious movie...
Uncut
An extraordinary illustration of the power of the cinematic art form.
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Film Journal International
...A moving, rhapsodic love story that's also part political thriller, part psychodrama...
Box Office
A striking and memorable film about the emotional firefights that flare up when the personal and the political are linked.
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Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
Paul Laverty drew on his experiences as a lawyer working with human rights groups in Nicaragua in writing the script for CARLA'S SONG, which stars Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) as George, a Glasgow bus driver. Attracted to Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a beautiful but impoverished Nicaraguan woman who often rides his bus, he sometimes allows her to ride for free--and is fired as a result. But he keeps in touch with Carla, helping her find a place to live in a spare room of a friend's apartment after learning that she's become detached from a dance troupe, forcing her to dance in the streets of Glasgow for meager remuneration. As they continue to see each other, George finds that Carla is subject to drastic mood swings, a result of her Sandinista boyfriend, Antonio (Richard Loza), having been captured by the Contras. Realizing that nothing will be resolved until Carla discovers the truth about Antonio, George agrees to accompany her to Nicaragua to try to find him. Carlyle is typically excellent in this film by hard-hitting English filmmaker Ken Loach, who is known for casting an unswerving eye on complex political and human rights issues.
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- Sales Rank: 6,850
- UPC: 720917506623
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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