Carla’s Song Robert Carlyle 2005 DVD Top-quality Free UK shipping

A director’s cut of Ken Loach’s drama. George (Robert Carlyle) is a bus driver in Glasgow who befriends fare dodger Carla (Oyanka Cabezas). After he finds her somewhere to live, she tells him that she is a refugee from war-torn Nicaragua. As he gradually falls in love with Carla, he arranges to travel with her to Managua in search of her lost boyfriend, Antonio – but this is 1987 and the Contra rebels are about to stage their final, lethal assault on the Sandinista Government.Synopsis
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.