CARLA'S SONG - BD

(Ken Loach, 1996, 111 mins)
Release date: 21 July 2025
Standard Edition Blu-ray

The first collaboration between director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty – a relationship which now extends to fifteen feature films and shorts, including My Name Is Joe and I, Daniel Blake – Carla’s Song tells the story of George (Robert Carlyle, Trainspotting), a Glaswegian bus driver, and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan refugee. Set in 1987, the film follows the pair as they meet, fall in love, and travel to Nicaragua in search of Carla’s former lover, a possible victim of the civil war.

INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition remaster
  
• Original stereo audio
  
• Audio commentary with director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty (2005)
  
• An Extraordinary Thing (2021, 18 mins): producer Sally Hibbin recalls the challenges of filming in Nicaragua
  
• Two Worlds Collide (2021, 9 mins): editor Jonathan Morris discusses working on an ambitious, international scale
  
• Tuning in to Nicaragua (2021, 10 mins): composer George Fenton details his approach to scoring the film
  
• Background to the Art (2021, 14 mins): art director Fergus Clegg on recreating the late-eighties setting of Carla’s Song
  
• Sounds of Music (2021, 10 mins): sound recordist Ray Beckett discusses the technical aspects of Loach’s documentary style of filmmaking
  
• Keeping Up Appearances (2021, 10 mins): script supervisor Susanna Lenton relates the complexities of shooting the film in sequence
  
• Ten deleted scenes (12 mins)
  
• Original theatrical trailer
  
• Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

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BBFC cert: 15
REGION FREE
EAN: 5060697924992