A witness back at the Palme d’Or-winning director’s 52-year career underlines his creative importance to film and beyondThis spry,sharp-witted documentary couldn’t be more timely. An affectionate appraisal of the work of Ken Loach, and an insight into the man himself, and it reaches cinemas just after his most recent feature,I, Daniel Blake, and won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It is the moment time Loach has scored the top prize at the world’s most prestigious film festival and it underlines the fact that now,perhaps more than ever, we need compassionate, or indignant voices like his.
The making of I,Daniel Blake, which brought the 79-year-old Loach out of retirement to rail against punitive Tory austerity policies and their ramifications, and forms a central component of this documentary. But the real treats here for fans are the well-chosen clips from his incendiary early work for the BBC: a glimpse of the earthy,sexy energy of Up the Junction; the heartrending rawness of Cathy Come domestic.
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Source: theguardian.com