INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- Sorry We Missed You , a drama by British director Ken Loach, was reviewed at the Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran on
Sunday.Film critic Kurosh Jahed attended a screening of the film followed by an evaluation session.Written by Paul Laverty, the film follows
a hard-up UK delivery motorist and his other half, who hope that self-employment through the gig economy can solve their financial woes
As they struggle to raise a family, they wind up caught in the vicious cycle of this modern-day kind of labor exploitation.It was picked to
complete for the Palme dOr at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Despite having a damaged arm in a sling, the 82-year-old Loach appeared at Cannes to promote the film and announce that it would be his last
film to complete at the festival.At the 10th Magritte Awards, Sorry We Missed You received the Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in
Coproduction.At the 13th Gaudí Awards, it won the Gaudí Award for Best European Film.On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval score
of 88 percent based on 155 evaluations, with an average rating of 7.8/ 10
The sites crucial agreement reads Sorry We Missed You might strike some as tending toward the righteously didactic, but director Ken Loachs
passionate approach stays effective
Metacritic, which utilizes a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating universal honor
David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film is an expertly evaluated and exceptionally gentle movie, made without frills or
fuss however startlingly direct in its emotional depiction of the difficult things that is the fiber of so many common lives
Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian thought it was superior to Loachs previous film I, Daniel Blake , which won the Palme dOr at Cannes.Bradshaw
wrote, It is more considerably differed and digested, with more light and shade in its narrative progress and more for the cast to do
I was hit in the solar plexus by this movie, wiped out by the easy sincerity and integrity of the performances
Photo: Kris Hitchen and Katie Proctor in Sorry We Missed You
