Veteran British director Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival when I, Daniel Blake, his latest social-realist drama, took the Best Picture award on Sunday May 22,2016
Loach, 79, is one of only nine directors to have won the top prize at Cannes twice. Loach had won in 2006 with The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
I, Daniel Blake, shows how Britain’s social security system
conspires to drive a downtrodden carpenter and a single mother of two
into poverty in the northeastern city of Newcastle.
Stand-up comedian Dave Johns plays joiner Daniel who is denied
disability benefits when unable to work through illness. He befriends
young mother Katie, played by Hayley Squires, as they battle with the
welfare system.
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