Ken LoachAfter a decade of the 90s that was his best cinema to date, he continued at a very high level during the beginning of the XNUMXst century, gifting his followers with excellent films.
«Bread and Roses»Was Ken Loach's first film in this new century. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or.
The following year the filmmaker shoots «The gang«, A film that takes up in a rather crude way, the reality of his country in reference to unemployment. The film was nominated for the best picture award at the television BAFTAs.
«Sweet Sixteen«, His 2002 film, returned to Cannes where it won the award for best screenplay, that year it also received the Grand Prize of International Critics at the European Film Awards and the Golden Spike for best film awarded at the Seminci de Valladolid, another festival that has had the films of this author very present.
Also in 2002 he collaborates in the episode film «11'09 »01 - 11 September«, A tribute to those who fell in the attack on the Twin Towers in September of the previous year.
In 2004 Ken Loach shoots «Only a kiss«, A film that was presented at the Berlinale that year, competing for the Golden Bear for best film. The film was also at the Seminci in Valladolid, where it received the Audience Award, and at the César Awards, where it won the award for best European film.
Together with Ermanno Olmi and Abbas Kiarostami, he would shoot in 2005 «Tickets«, A film that has three stories of about 40 minutes, each directed by one of the filmmakers.
Also that year he co-directed with Franny Armstrong «McLibel«, A film about the case that gives its name to this documentary, which initially lasted 52 minutes and was later lengthened to 85 minutes when McLibel's defendants took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
In 2006, the filmmaker won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival, among many other awards, for his film «The wind that shakes the barley«.
The following year he rolled «In a free world«, A film with which the filmmaker attends the Venice Film Festival and where he wins the award for best screenplay. With this film the director denounces the methods used by temporary work agencies.
In the 2007 tape «To each his cinema«, Where 35 directors shoot 33 short films in tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Festival, Loach could not be absent, a very important filmmaker in the history of the event.
In 2009 he rolled «Looking for eric«, A film in which Eric Cantona appears as himself and which received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes.
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