Mumbai Film Festival: Day Five Highlights
by The Daily Eye Team October 27 2016, 11:50 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 34 secsThe Palme d’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake is urgent and distressed, while the new Jodorowsky film is winningly weird. I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach’s 50-year career in film has been marked by an incandescent fierceness and a unique empathy for working class lives. Both qualities are present in spades in I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows the efforts of a 59-year-old widower (played by Dave Johns) who’s recently had a heart attack and is eligible for sickness benefits, but unable to access them due to an almost impenetrable, unsympathetic healthcare system.