
A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate their way through the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.... (Full plot summary below)
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A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate their way through the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatAward-winning film that will draw out your empathy for those coping with poverty and the bureaucracy of England's welfare system. |
| Consequence of SoundBlake GobleThis is a kitchen-sink hymn for the indomitable spirit of the common man. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanI, Daniel Blake is one of Loach’s finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity that goes right back to the plainspoken purity of Vittorio De Sica. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferEqually heartwarming and heartbreaking. A testament to the humanism of writer/director Ken Loach |
| Buffalo NewsChristopher SchobertIt's one of the year's essential releases - maybe its most essential. |
| News.com.auWenlei MaIt is simple storytelling at its most powerful. |
| Urban CinefileLouise KellerThere's a sense of despondency about Ken Loach's latest film as it describes the plight of a decent man whose self-respect is throttled by bureaucracy. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonLefty, loud, proud (and heartbreaking and infuriating with it). Rages against systems once meant to help people that have become machines intended to crush them. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Aine O'ConnorThe film's deftness of touch makes it extremely watchable and nowhere near as turgid as it sounds. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeA gut-wrenching tragicomic drama (about "a monumental farce") that blends the timeless humanity of the Dardenne brothers' finest works with the contemporary urgency of Loach's own 1966 masterpiece Cathy Come Home. |