Back in the UK in a few hours. Here is the creation that is always with me these days:
"I, DANIEL BLAKE" - OFFICIAL UK TRAILER
Published on 15 Jun 2016
The new film by British filmmaker Ken Loach, I Daniel Blake won the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern-day Britain.
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Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern-day Britain.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/idanielblake
Twitter: https://twitter.com/idanielblake
#IDanielBlake
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Extract:
Published on 14 May 2016
The tale of Daniel Blake, a 59-year-old widower carpenter from Newcastle, who is fighting to hold on to his welfare benefits, when he spots a woman in a similar predicament at the welfare office, he tries to help her & the two kids get set up... leading into a surrogate family.
Director - Ken Loach
Winner - Palme d'or, Cannes Film Festival 2016
CAST
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann, Kate Rutter, Sharon Percy, Kema Sikazwe
Director - Ken Loach
Winner - Palme d'or, Cannes Film Festival 2016
CAST
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann, Kate Rutter, Sharon Percy, Kema Sikazwe
Listen to Ken Loach's acceptance speech at Cannes here:
https://vimeo.com/172302451
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I'm writing an article about the impact of the film and of Ken Loach's work in the UK nowadays.
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