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I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

4/5

By Fringebiscuit

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@weareETT ’s adaptation paints with broad strokes, at times missing nuances of #KenLoach ’s cinematic critique of the UK’s welfare state. It’s a more polemic, less intimate take, but the cast ably captures shame, isolation & despair caused by an inhumane system.

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