Ken Loach stars in film centre retrospective
In a talk at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the English director said he doesn’t see a social program from the independence movement “to challenge (that) of the Madrid government”
The Filmoteca de Catalunya film archive is holding its first large retrospective of 2018, with the projection of 16 of Ken Loach’s feature-length films. The English director has been often defined as a ‘social / socialist realist’ for his treatment of issues such as poverty, homelessness, and labour rights, although he has also rejected pigeonholing himself as such.
Socialist programs were, though, at the forefront of the speech that the filmmaker gave on January 30 at the Filmoteca. At the event to present his latest movie ‘I, Daniel Blake’ (2016), recipient of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film festival, Ken Loach commented on the current Catalan situation, through a social lens.
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