The winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, I, Daniel Blake has just received its first official trailer – guaranteeing to provoke anger in the best of us.
The acclaimed film is Ken Loach’s second Cannes Palme d’Or win and sees the director team up again with screenwriter Paul Laverty (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Jimmy’s Hall, The Angels’ Share). I, Daniel Blake stars British comedian, Dave Johns and Hayley Squires (A Royal Night Out). The film takes an honest look at the UK welfare system with a story that is heartfelt, humorous and brutally moving.
SYNOPSIS
Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy
and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern-day Britain.
I, Daniel Blake is IN CINEMAS OCTOBER 21 2016
