We’ve just got some home release information for the superb Ken Loach film Sorry We Missed You which premiered at this past year’s Cannes Film Festival. The movie, which sees Loach re-team with screenwriter Paul Leverty. The two last worked on the Palme d’Or winning I, Daniel Blake a couple of years back.
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Sorry We Missed You follows the life of Ricky, a former construction worker who found himself unemployed and robbed of the chance of a stable life for his family after the 2008 economic crash in Britain, and his wife Abbie; a contract nurse with a demanding schedule that leaves her no time for her own family. Sick of their financial predicament, Ricky hears about work going as a van driver for a big delivery company and decides to go for it, hoping this will finally be his route to stability. Sold to him as a job with flexibility and opportunity, it soon becomes clear that the reality is far from that. Ricky must provide his own van which means selling the family car, and his hard-faced manager reveals he will receive none of the typical employment benefits. The deadlines are impossible, and the hours are long, and when Ricky needs time off work it results in him falling further and further into debt with the company. Stuck in a hopeless and vicious spiral, their lives spin out of control as terrifying truths reveal just how thin a string they’re clinging on to.
The home release is charged with bonus material which is headlined by a commentary from both Loach and Laverty.
Bonus:
- Feature Commentary with Director Ken Loach and Writer Paul Laverty
- Making Sorry We Missed You
- Deleted Scenes
- How to Make a Ken Loach Film
- Gallery – Paintings by Aidan Doyle
Sorry We Missed You is available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital on 9th March, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
