Synopsis
Ladybird Ladybird (1994) is a Ken Loach drama you can watch online on iFILM. The British director turns a bruising true story into a film about a mother the state keeps stripping of her children.
Maggie is a fierce, quick-tempered woman from working-class Liverpool, with four kids by four different men. After a past marked by an abusive partner, social services decide she is a danger to her own children and take them away. Then she meets Jorge, a soft-spoken refugee from Latin America, and a calmer future starts to feel possible. But her record follows her everywhere, and every new pregnancy brings the welfare officers back to her door.
Loach shoots in his trademark fashion — non-professional actors, handheld camera, a rawness that blurs the line with documentary. Crissy Rock plays Maggie with such ferocity that the performance barely reads as acting. This is hard, uncomfortable cinema for anyone ready for social realism that refuses an easy ending. Stream Ladybird Ladybird (1994) online on iFILM.
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