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appalachiablue

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Tue Mar 31, 2020, 06:12 PM Mar 2020

New Film: 'Sorry We Missed You,' The Gig Economy, Human Costs & Modern Life



Trailer, "Sorry We Missed You" (2020). - Review, Washington Post, March 31, 2020, by Ann Hornaday:...Ken Loach’s new film is an unsparing look at the human costs of the gig economy. As small catastrophes cascade into bigger ones, “Sorry We Missed You” takes on the usual contours of a Ken Loach film. He’s too honest to deliver false happy endings, but he doesn’t slather on the melodrama for sentimentality’s sake. In this deeply compassionate film, viewers get a chance to see the fatigue, stress and bewilderment of modern life for what they are: not the regrettable side effects of market-driven progress, but the results of cynicism & greed, and the unfathomable human cost of wanting what we want, now...https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/sorry-we-missed-you-movie-review/2020/03/31/4758bcb8-6f8f-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html

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