- Bread and Roses (film)
Infobox Film
name = Bread and Roses
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director =Ken Loach
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writer =Paul Laverty
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starring =Pilar Padilla Adrien Brody Elpidia Carrillo
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cinematography =Barry Ackroyd
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released = 2000
runtime = 110 min.
country =U.K. /France /Germany /Spain /Italy /Switzerland
language = English / Spanish
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imdb_id = 0212826"Bread and Roses" is a 2000
film directed byKen Loach , starringAdrien Brody . The plot deals with the struggle of poorly paid janitorial workers inLos Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize. It is based on the Justice for Janitors campaign of theService Employees International Union (SEIU). [ [http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~wbarry/laborinmovies/Bread%20and%20Roses%20Foreword.doc" Bread and Roses Foreword"] ,SEIU President Andrew L. Stern]The film is critical of inequalities in the United States.
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 1910 poem byJames 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 theIndustrial Workers of the World .Awards and nominations
The film was nominated for the
Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at theCannes Film Festival and won the Jury Award at theTemecula Valley International Film Festival in 2000. In 2001, it was nominated for the Artios award of theCasting Society of America , for theBritish Independent Film Awards for Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won the Phoenix Prize at theSanta Barbara International Film Festival . In 2002, it was nominated for fourALMA Awards , of which it won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture(Elpidia Carrillo) and also won theImagen Award for Best Theatrical Feature Film of theImagen Foundation Awards .References
External links
* [http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/073.html The Bread-and-Roses-strike]
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