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Loading... “Bread and Roses” tells its story through the eyes of Maya (Pilar Padilla), an illegal immigrant newly arrived in Los Angeles. Her sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo) gets her a job in a sleazy bar, but Maya is a good girl and doesn’t like it: “I want to work with you cleaning the offices.”
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Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize. Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa.
Directed by Ken Loach. A mesmerizing drama about a young Mexican woman and her co-workers, all office cleaners and janitors, who are inspired to struggle for justice by a union organizer. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
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Bread and Roses: Directed by Ken Loach. With Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee. Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
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Synopsis In Los Angeles, illegal Mexican immigrant Maya (Pilar Padilla) finds work as a janitor through her sister, Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo). However, since both work for a...
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Mar 28, 2001 · After surviving a perilous journey from Mexico to the US, Maya (Padilla) enlists the help of her hard-working sister Rosa (Carrillo) to secure a job among other immigrant cleaners with a non-union...
