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KEN LOACH, THE ART OF ACTIVISM

By Pierre CHASSAGNIEUX

ARTE FRANCE - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV

Documentary - Post-Production 2023

Two times winner of the Palme d'Or, Ken Loach is one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers. This documentary shows in a punk and rebellious tone how Loach uses cinema as a political tool that allows to advocate for the advent of a more just society, by raising viewers' awareness.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary, Art - Culture, Biography
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Pierre CHASSAGNIEUX
- Producer(s)
- Marie DROGUE (MA DROGUE A MOI)
- Synopsis
- Thanks to an exclusive and exceptional access to all the director's professional and personal archives, this documentary deciphers his work and the Ken Loach method: to make cinema a political weapon thanks to realistic films that move people. Deeply humanist, Ken Loach never stopped fighting against the implementation of neoliberalism at the end of the 70s with Margaret Thatcher coming to power in Great Britain. This apostle of subversion has twice won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his films The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016). Now 86 years old, the tireless Ken Loach enters the production of his new feature film, The Old Oak, scheduled for release in 2023.