Poor Cow (1967) - Ken Loach

"I fell in the family way when I was 18 and I got married to a right bastard". Ken Loach's debut feature tells the story of Joy, a young mother (Carol White) whose chauvinistic thug of a husband is thrown into prison. She takes up with one of his friends, lovable, kind-hearted burglar Terence Stamp, but he too ends up in jail.

Poor Cow presents a startling juxtaposition to clean and shiny "swinging 60s London" because what we see here is a scummy-looking London filled with squalor and slums. The film has a rather mod feel and its soundtrack includes songs by Donovan and many other mid-60s top pop artists. The story unfolds in episodes as "Joy" marries and has a child with a chauvinistic thug who very quickly winds up in prison. Now all alone with her son, she begins a relationship with her husband's mate (another low-life criminal) who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up in jail. Joy then takes up with a succession of seedy types - we see her making love in the hay and posing half-naked for lecherous amateur photographers - who offer her nothing but temporary diversions. There are some powerful moments--Joy desperately looking for her son who has wandered off, unattended, onto a building site, or trying to escape from her abusive husband--which anticipate such later Loach films as Ladybird, Ladybird or Raining Stones. The scenes between Joy and Stamp are played with real tenderness and humour.

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