Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2016, this is Ken Loach's drama about a 59-year-old carpenter in North-East England who falls ill and requires state assistance for disability. While he endeavours to overcome the red tape involved in getting this assistance, he meets single mother Katie.
Although I’ve personally enjoyed previous Palme d’Or winners, they’re typically tough to sell to general audiences. I couldn’t tell my neighbour to sacrifice three hours for talky Turkish tale Winter Sleep, I would not dare push Michael Haneke’s Amour on my parents, and we all know where we stand on The Tree of Life.
Full reviewOne of Loach's finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity that goes right back to the plainspoken purity of Vittorio De Sica.
Full reviewThe 80-year-old director still has plenty of fire in his belly. Warm, belligerent and, in places, unbearably moving.
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This film intervenes in the messy, ugly world of poverty with the secular intention of making us see that it really is happening, and in a prosperous nation, too. I, Daniel Blake is a movie with a fierce, simple dignity of its own.
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If you're not going to see I, Daniel Blake, then don't bother telling me that you're a fan of good films. Because you're not.
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A fierce and often funny polemic designed to leave a lump in your throat and a fire in your belly.
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While the framework and perspective are familiar, the veteran Brit director's films can still have the power to grip us in an emotional chokehold.
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Loach scans the contemporary landscape, and instead of a firebrand approach of stereotype, delivers a film of immense sadness.
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