is famous for storylines that depict life’s bleakest injustices. But his latest film has touched a political nerve that is more raw now than when it was conceived before the pandemic.
“When you’re doing it, you’re doing it, you just have to get a move on and get on with it,” he says. “But I can’t see me getting round the course again. Your capacity fades a bit when you’re knocking on.” With his longtime screenplay writer partner, Paul Laverty, Loach planned the film in 2019, using as material the arrival of Syrian refugees to the UK in 2016 as part of ato resettle 20,000 people. Then the pandemic struck, the project was put on hold and neither of them knew whether the film would ever see the light of day.against asylum seekers in a way that was not the case in 2019.
Loach, a lifelong socialist with steadfast political convictions, says: “The far right is on the march across Europe. I believe that home secretary Suella Braverman is cynical. She knows exactly what she’s unleashing with her comments.”Although Loach has said this is his final film, his love for his work is undiminished. His 1969 classic film Kes, about a troubled boy and his relationship with a kestrel, was voted one of the best films of the 20th century by the British Film Institute.
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