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Ken Loach


Born
in Nuneaton (Warwickshire), The United Kingdom
June 17, 1936

Genre
Cinema

Influences
William Hogarth, Vittorio De Sica ...more


Kenneth Charles Loach is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialism are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).

Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh-greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice. Loach also holds the record for most films in the main competition at Cannes, with fifteen films. ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 1,663 ratings · 193 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors
Dialogue sur l'art et la po...
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Desafiar el relato de los p...
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Loach on Loach
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Il vento che accarezza l'er...
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Art and Resistance
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Cinema e libertà
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“If you accept the unacceptable without being angry, then there is something wrong with you.”
― Ken Loach
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“In 1969 Billy Casper was going into a job he didn't want. Today he'd be lucky to get a part-time casual job in a far more hostile world. Maybe we should ask what went wrong.”
― Ken Loach
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