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Director Ken Loach spoke to Tom Behan about his award winning new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which is about Ireland’s fight for freedom

Even though Ken Loach’s new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley hasn’t yet opened in cinemas, it has already won a high profile award and created controversy. Ken Loach is on a high after winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Some elements of the British media have insinuated it was just a fluke, or that he won as a kind of “lifetime achievement award”.

This is nonsense – the jury’s decision was unanimous. Some newspapers have been far worse, and Loach is rightly livid.

Ken Loach told Socialist Worker, “The right wing has reacted hysterically. The Daily Mail has written, ‘Why does this man loathe his country so much?’

“The Times has compared me to Leni Riefenstahl – a Nazi propagandist! Such a response is crude, vicious and lying, so we’ve obviously hurt them. It’s all because they can’t stand the idea of the British Empire being questioned.

“They liked it when people went out for the ‘benefit of the poor benighted natives and brought them the Bib

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Ken Loach

English filmmaker (born 1936)

Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist views are evident in his film 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).

Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. 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 one of only ten filmmakers to win the award twice.^[3] He also holds the record for the most films screened in the main competition at Cannes with 15.^[4]

Early life

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Kenneth Charles Loach was born in Nuneaton on 17 June 1936, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach.^[5] He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 19.^[6] He later read law at St Peter's College, Oxford,^[7] graduating with a third-class degree.^[6] As a member of the Experimental Theatre Club, he directed a 1959 open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the