Another searing indictment on modern Britain, Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake returns to its homeland with a Palme D’Or in its pocket and plenty of fire in its belly. The drama, which reaches our screens in October, has a first trailer. Click below to see what got the Croisette so excited.
This one follows struggling Newcastle man Daniel Blake as he finds door after door shut in his face. The fiftysomething joiner, played by comedian Dave Jones in casting similar to John Bishop’s in Loach’s Iraq parable Route Irish, has suffered a heart attack and relies on the State to give him a hand up. He then crosses paths with a single mum (Hayley Squires) and her two children in equally difficult straits. The State, needless to say, has little help to offer.
They love Loach in Cannes, where his social jabs and humanist dramas play to rapt crowds, and I, Daniel Blake is his second Palme winner. The Wind That Shakes The Barley took the top prize in 2006.
Catch I, Daniel Blake when it reaches UK cinemas on October 21.