Cinema: I, Daniel Blake
Palme d'Or winner
Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge
Event Details
- Mon 30 Jan 2017
- 8.00pm
- Cost: 6.00
- Venue Details
Riverbank Arts Centre
Main St.
Newbridge
Recovering from a heart attack Newcastle carpenter Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) finds himself fighting a welfare system where his benefits will be taken away unless he looks for work, despite doctor's orders preventing him from working if he does find a job.
As he battles against this absurd bureaucracy, Daniel befriends Katie (Hayley Squires), a young single mother with two kids, who is also struggling with the system after relocating to Newcastle from a London homeless shelter.
Deserving of its recent Palme d’Or win (the second for its director), Ken Loach delivers a powerful work of quiet outrage that is at turns intensely moving, darkly humorous and deeply heartbreaking.
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