Film
I, Daniel Blake + panel discussion
- Director
- Ken Loach
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 100 mins
Fiftysomething salt-of-the-earth Geordie Daniel Blake (stand-up comic Dave Johns) suffers a heart attack and is no longer able to ply his trade as a carpenter. Now this proud widower finds himself negotiating the Kafkaesque, frequently cruel welfare system as he signs on for the first time. Needless to say, his honesty and decency count against him in encounters with the heartless bureaucratic drones for whom a special circle of hell is reserved. Along the way he forms an alliance with salt-of-the-earth Londoner Katie (Hayley Squires) – a single mother who’s been forced to relocate to Newcastle to avoid homelessness.
Yep, it’s the new movie from the Jeremy Corbyn of UK cinema, Ken Loach. The winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film, this is an angry, humane Austerity Britain drama in the tradition of Orwell and Dickens. Refreshingly, Loach makes no attempt at mythical ‘balance’. The Cube’s screenings is a fund-raiser for the Julian Trust and will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on social housing and homelessness in Bristol and further afield with Cllr Nicola Beech, Jamie Burton (Doughty Street Chambers, ‘Just Fair’), David Cowan (Law and Policy, Bristol University), Mike Mills (CHAS Bristol), Ed Mitchell (former Presenter, Broadcaster, Journalist), and Richard Drake from the Julian Trust. Go here for advance tickets.
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