• This social political drama won the Palme d’Or
  • Reminded me of Kurosawa’s ikiru– a damnation of Japanese bureaucracy
  • Ellipsis editing- lack of music—it’s in the vain of cinema’s realism or neo realism (or neo neo-realism)
  • Loach is a solid filmmaker but he’s not the dardenne brothers- no handheld camera to create immediately and intimacy—not quite the formal rigor of the Belgium realist masters—nor their penchant for beautiful images
  • A very rich, memorable title character
  • Fits in loach’s political filmography but not nearly as good as kes
  • In my archive but not in the top 10 of 2016
  • Recommend