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Mood:
- SincereThought ProvokingRoughTense
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Plot:
- PoliticsSocietyOpposites AttractRescueLove AffairSocial DifferencesPolitical UnrestMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- ScotlandBus
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Carla's Song, 1996
English, Spanish
UK, Spain, Germany
Profile of Carla's Song
The mood of Carla's Song is thought provoking, sincere, and tense. The plot centers around politics, society, and political unrest. It is a drama, romance, and independent movie. In approach, Carla's Song is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on a bus. The setting is Scotland. Carla's Song happens in the 1990s.
Summary of Carla's Song
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.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | UK, Spain, Germany |
| Release date: | 15 May 1997 |
| Runtime: | 127 min |
Cast and Crew
as George Lennox
as Carla
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