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Film: Cannes 2006
Author(s) -
MacCABE COLIN
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00728.x
Subject(s) - movie theater , representation (politics) , capitalism , art , art history , visual arts , aesthetics , political science , law , politics
No one could begrudge Ken Loach the Palme d'Or that he won at this year's Cannes. One of the great directors of post‐war European cinema, Loach is perhaps the most important heir of that realist tradition which finds its aesthetic roots in Rossellini and its justification in the representation of hitherto unrecognised elements of social reality. From Cathy Come Home in the mid‐sixties to The Navigators nearly forty years later, Loach has been at his best when using his camera to bring to the screen stories that display the unacceptable faces of late capitalism...