My Name Is Joe

Every meeting starts the same way, a man standing up in a circle of strangers to say his name, and Joe (Peter Mullan) has been saying it for ten sober months. Then Sarah (Louise Goodall), a health visitor working the same rough Glasgow neighbourhood, turns up at his door, and a courtship begins. Ken Loach films it in plain daylight with unforced performances, so the scheme flats and the football pitch are simply there.