Description: Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) stars as George, a Glasgow bus driver who risks his job by giving a free ride to a beautiful Nicaraguan woman with no money. From the moment that he sees her, George becomes infatuated.
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Rating: - I WORKED FOR ACCION PERMANENTE CRISTIANA POR LA PAZ IN 1987: SAME AS THIS FILM AND IT IS REAL
Coincidentally I worked in Nicaragua during the time and setting of this film and it is too real. I also knew Anita Setright who plays herself on our old front porch, although nearly ten years later as the film was made in 1996 or so. She still smiles benevolently in this movie. Seeing the contra attacks and their effects, the vehicles, and the walls and murals are very real to me. Too real.
Okay so the romance seems a bit hockey and the Paul Laverty narrative has a few gaps (how does she get quickly from her mother's house to La Experanza when the others have to hijack a bus? How does she learn really good English in only about seven months of exile in the British Isles? As an ESL teacher myself, I really want to know! How does Scott Glenn's character turn so quickly from CIA trainer in torture and attack one year to peaceworker the next, unless he's a CIA plant infiltrating the Accion Pte., as I so ... Read More
Rating: - Absurd "Love Story" Mixed With Sandinista Propaganda
George is a young and irresponsible bus driver from Glasgow, Scotland. He ends up getting fired for, among other offenses, giving free rides to a Nicaraguan immigrant named Carla. George then becomes romantically obsessed with Carla and buys two plane ticket so they can go to Nicaragua and search for her ex-boyfriend Antonio. What the hell is this guy thinking? But wait it gets even weirder.
From there George follows her like a puppydog through various Nicaraguan warzones full of good guy Sandinistas and bad guy Contras before Carla finally discovers her lost love Antonio. Then George happily makes his way home to Scotland.
This most unlikely "love story" is also a Communist propaganda film. Yes, Somoza was a horrible dictator and Reagan, Oliver North and crew were certainly wrong to covertly and illegally fund the Contras, (remember the Iran-Contra scandal). But the Sandinistas were no ... Read More
Rating: - What if?
As always, Ken Loach made of a simple story, a revealing, breathtaking and hard to forget movie around a Scottish bus driver and a Nicaraguan woman.
Inch by inch, a worthy film to watch.
Rating: - Loach Not At the Top of His Form
The first Loach flick that left me somewhat unmoved. A Glaswegian buser falls for a beautiful yet shell-shocked Nicaraguan refugee. She had witnessed some of the contras' attrocities (they were trained and armed by the US military). Under his large socialist umbrella, Loach stays outside of the perimeter on this one. No particular depth of the story, little warmth save the obvious sympathy. He's done much better in his starker, more uncompromising and less "romantic" flicks such as "My Name Is Joe" or any of his early Brit working class masterworks. Still, even the sentimentally toned down Carla's Song, mostly due to the terrific Robert Carlisle (spelling?)-is highly watchable flick.
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- I WORKED FOR ACCION PERMANENTE CRISTIANA POR LA PAZ IN 1987: SAME AS THIS FILM AND IT IS REAL
- Absurd "Love Story" Mixed With Sandinista Propaganda 
- Loach Not At the Top of His Form
