Ken Loach lives up to expectations this time as well: the now 83-year-old English director nailes a film that criticizes heavily, but at the same time with delicacy and with all the human and family implications of the case, the "Amazon model", i.e. the frenetic and ruthless economy that today affects Western societies to the point of alienating people, disintegrating family dynamics and totally eliding labor rights and cornerstones of common well-being such as solidarity and health. “Sorry we missed you”, which is reviewed on FIRST Art by the film critic Patrizio Rossano, is practically a masterpiece: it deserves a very high score, thanks also to the excellent performances of the actors, who once again testify to the quality of the English acting school, especially in this kind of film, which delve into the private life of ordinary people.
The father and husband (from us an unknown Kris Hitchen) is linear and flawless, while the mother (also the unknown Debbie Honeywood) is no less but with an extra note: she is simply masterful, superb, capable of acting as few, able to put the viewer in difficulty in distinguishing the profession of actress from that of a real person. “Loach – writes Rossano – is not only able to know how to use all the tools of cinema in a masterly way, from the screenplay (written by Paul Laverty) to the actors passing through the correct formality of the images, but he is also capable of grasping the fleeting moment of a suffering humanity in all social, geographical and cultural dimensions and to know how to direct responsibilities well. 'Sorry we missed you' is a simple, dramatic, universal story of a family in crisis under the blows of an often ferocious, cynical and ruthless new economy”.
