The Old Oak

The Old Oak

Cannes Film Festival

VERDICT: After angry, affecting portraits of northern England’s working class families in his previous two films, in 'The Old Oak' director Ken Loach travels to a former mining village where Syrian refugees are being resettled, to tell a moving but more generic, less engaging story than its predecessors.

British octogenarian Ken Loach, whose recent films set in northeastern England have earned him renew
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