Completed - ENGLISH - Drama - 100 minutes
A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after suffering a heart attack is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Loach KEN Writer(s) : Paul LAVERTY Cast : Dave JOHNS, Hayley SQUIRES, Sharon PERCY Producer(s) : Rebecca O'BRIEN
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 a 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.
Country(ies) : FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM
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Cannes 2016 (Palme D'or)