Smash the state! Britain is broken. We’re all going to hell in a handcart. No, these aren’t the words of an outspoken tabloid columnist but the left-wing filmmaker Ken Loach and his trusty screenwriting accomplice, Paul Laverty.
Against the odds, Loach was handed his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for I, Daniel Blake, an examination of a lovable carpenter from northern England who is trapped – Josef K‑style – within a web of needless bureaucracy in his attempts to secure disability benefits. His story is entwined with that of a young mother who’s been displaced from London due to a new unfriendly, unhelpful council housing scheme. She, too, must fight to make a crust. Watch the trailer above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies.
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I, Daniel Blake opens in UK cinemas on 21 October.
