Cinema: I, Daniel Blake

Palme d'Or winner

Cinema: I, Daniel Blake

Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge

Event Details

  • Mon 30 Jan  2017
  • 8.00pm

  • Cost: 6.00

  • Venue Details
    Riverbank Arts Centre

    Main St.
    Newbridge


  • 045 448330
  • info@riverbank.ie
  • www.riverbank.ie


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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