Summary and Critique of 'It's a Free World' by Clara Michellier and Léa Rodriguez

At the beginning of the film Angie is dismissed by her boss after she refuses to accept his sexual advances. She decides to set up her own recruitment company with her flatmate Rose. She asks her local pub manager Andy if she can use his backyard, which is both spacious and well situated, to collect her casual labourers before they are transported to the biulding site or the factory where they will be employed on short term contracts.

This movie shows that Angie is both a good and a bad example at the same time. Indeed, she is outlawed and does not think necessarily about the consequences and is not an exemplary mother. However, at the same time Angie has a strength of character after having rebelled against her employer, and she is a woman who persists in proving to the company that she is capable of taking her life into her own hands, of managing her company and that she is stable enough to get back her son to be able to take care of him.