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Diagnosed with a serious heart disease, Daniel Blake, a 59-year-old widower, has a medical indication to stop working. But when he tries to receive the benefits of the state that give him a form of subsistence, he finds himself entangled in an unjust bureaucracy. During a wait at a Social Security office, Daniel meets Katie, a single mother of two children in need of urgent help. Daniel and Katie, two strangers whose life has left them with no form of support, are forced to accept help from the food bank. And it is in the midst of despair that they become the only hope of each other...
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Cast:
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy -
Original Title:
I, Daniel Blake -
Country:
United Kingdom, France, Belgium -
Year:
2016 - 100' Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Ken Loach
Kenneth “Ken” Loach is an English television and film director. His politically charged directing style and socialist ideals are evident in the 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) in his films. In 2016, Loach said his work challenged the notion that films on working class people were necessarily dour, believing it harder to find humour in rich people’s lives. 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 into the ninth filmmaker to win the award twice.
