Carla's Song
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director: | Kenneth Loach |
Writer: | Paul Laverty |
Director of Photography: | Barry Ackroyd |
Editor: | Jonathan Morris |
Music: | George Fenton |
Production Designer: | Martin Johnson |
Producer: | Sally Hibbin |
Shadow Distribution; NR; 127 minutes | |
Release: | 6/98 |
Cast: | Cast: Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Subash Sing Pall, Stewart Preston, Gary Lewis, Scott Glenn and Margaret McAdam |
Carlyle plays George, a Scottish bus driver who falls for one of his passengers, a Nicaraguan refugee named Carla (Cabezas). This romantic tale turns into a story of political awakening when George, having agreed to help her search for a former lover who was captured and tortured by the Contras, accompanies Carla, a Sandinista supporter, to her homeland. Carla's story is poignant and George's experience of culture shock in a country torn apart by guerilla warfare is powerful. Glenn plays a CIA man turned human rights activist who serves as a mouthpiece for much of the film's impassioned glorification of the Sandinistan cause.
.com/ipea/0/7/6/2/8/3/A0762834.html