Ken Loach wins 2016 Palme d'Or at Cannes, cementing his place in the festival's great directors.
The British director Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night, making him one of only nine filmmakers to have been awarded the prize twice in the festival’s 69-year history.
The 79-year-old director’s Newcastle-set social-realist drama I, Daniel Blake follows a middle-aged carpenter, played by the comedian Dave Johns, who struggles to negotiate the British welfare state after a heart attack leaves him unable to work.
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