I Daniel Blake
British master Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes for this often funny and ultimately intensely moving tale of the friendship between an out-of-work Newcastle carpenter and a young single mother.
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Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a carpenter most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a 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 in modern day Britain.
Ken Loach, UK, France, Belgium, 2016, 97 min. English spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Dave Johns, Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dylan Phillip McKiernan, Kate Rutter.