| Congratulations to Ken Loach, who was awarded the Palme D’Or Award for Best Feature Film in the Official Competition at Cannes Film Festival 2016 last night. The film was mixed by Pinewood Post Production.
Loach’s I, Daniel Blake follows the story of a middle-aged widower in northern England who struggles in the welfare system after a heart attack. Handed the prize by actor Mel Gibson, Loach went on to give a passionate speech about the state of the economy and social and political systems while accepting his award: “The world is at a dangerous point, with ‘austerity’ driven by the ideals of neo-liberalism that have brought us to near-catastrophe, that have brought hardship to many in Greece in the East and Portugal and Spain in the West and grotesque wealth to a few,” he said. “There is the danger of despair that people from the far right take advantage. Some of us who are old remember what that was like. So we must say something else is possible, another world is possible and necessary.” Loach was not the only British winner at Cannes – Andrea Arnold’s road movie American Honey, starring Shia LaBeouf, won the Prix du Jury (Jury Prize). Ben Roberts, director of the BFI Film Fund said: “What a moment for British cinema, and for two important and humane films with so much to say.” This also wasn’t Loach’s first win at Cannes, with him previously winning the Palme D’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, which was set against the backdrop of the Irish war of independence. Read the full story on Hollywood Reporters website here. |
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I, DANIEL BLAKE’ WINS PALME D’OR AT CANNES
