Fresh from winning Palme d’Or with I, Daniel Blake, director says he hopes it will affect government policy in the same way as earlier film Cathy Come Home Film-maker Ken Loach has called the benefits system a “cruel bureaucracy” that makes users feel inferior and desperate in an interview after winning his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival.Loach clinched the festival’s highest honour for his welfare state drama I, Daniel Blake, about a carpenter struggling with the inanities and indignities of the benefits system.
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Jessica Elgot, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Mon, 05/23/2016 - 2:28am
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