Ken Loach

Ken Loach , of its true name Kenneth Loach , born the June 17th 1936 with Nuneaton, Warwickshire, is a British Réalisateur of Cinéma and Télévision.

May 28th, 2006, it receives the Palme of gold at the time of the 59e Cannes festival for the Wind rises .

Biography

Born into 1936 from a father electrician in factory, Loach followed studies of Droit to St Peter' S College to Oxford. There, he plays in the comic troop maintaining established well, re-examined Oxford. He starts outside as an actor in the theater of Repertory, but to beginning of the year 60, he enters the world of television and is credited like realizer on the first episodes with the series Z Bus in 1962. But Loach marks its entry in the medium through the docu-dramas , in particular Cathy As Home (1966) which has a strong social influence. Towards end of the year 60, it starts to direct films, and carries out Kes , the history of a worried boy and his kestrel, based on the novel " a Kestrel for a servant " by Barry Hines. This film will have a great impact in Great Britain.

The Seventies and Eighties were successful, with films suffering from a weak distribution, a certain lack of interest and political censorship. Its film The Save the Children Fund Film was a ordering of the foundation " Save the Children ", which hated it so much that it tried to make destroy the negative one. He was also requested by Chanel 4 to make off has Question Leadership , documentary about the strike of the minors. However, the program was not diffused by Chanel 4, Loach declared that it was for political reasons.

However, the Nineties see the return of Loach, with the production of a series of popular films acclaimed by criticism. For this period, it accepted three times of the prices to the Festival of film of Cannes.

In December 2003, it was graduate of a honorary Doctorat of letters by the Université of Birmingham (the United Kingdom). In November 2004, he was elected at the national council of the left party RESPECT. The Université of Oxford allotted an honorary title of " to him; doctor of law civile" in June 2005.

May 28th, 2006, Loach gains the Gold Palm to the Cannes festival for its film the wind rises , a discussed vision of the Irish war of independence and Irish civil war which followed during the Twenties. The film was strongly criticized by part of the British media for its representation of the British forces in occupation in Ireland. In certain cases, these criticisms were made by commentators who had not seen film.

Ken Loach lives with its family with Bath in England where he is a supportor and a shareholder of the local football club.

It supports NOT with at the time of the bearing referendum on the Constitution of Europe in France and in March 2007, it gives its support for Olivier Besancenot for the French presidential campaign, after having supported Arlette Laguiller with presidential of 1995.

The style " Loach"

The realization of Loach is characterized by a particular sight of realism; it tries that in each sector of the realization, the bonds between the actors are emphatisés, at the point where some scenes seem not to be scénarisées. Rather than to employ methodical actors, he prefers the talent of unknown who lived the real experiment of the life of the characters that they incarnate, so much so that certain professional actors wishing to work with Loach pretend to come from the working class as it is often the case in the scenarios. For Bread and pink , it chose two main actors who had experience of the organization of a trade union, as well as life as an immigrant. The main actor in film, Pilar Padilla, had to learn how English in order to play the part, the male actor is not other than Adrian Brody (the pianist)

He tries to make sure that the actors express in a way as true as possible the feelings of their character by filming the history in the order, and, crucial thing, by giving script to the actors only a few minutes before turning. It is frequent that in a scene, only some actors know what will occur, the others will express a shock, sadness, or surprise, because they are really struck by the events of the scene.

Two examples: on Kes , the boy, discovering the dead bird at the end, believed that the director had really killed the bird which had become completely near to him during all turning (in fact, it had used an dead bird found elsewhere). In Raining Stones , an usurer returns visit to one of the actresses in his house, this one then does not have idea that it was going to force it to remove his alliance and to give it him like installment. There exist other examples.

Ken Loach is a savage adversary of the censure in its films and it was outraged by the certificate granted to Sweet Sixteen (it was prohibited at least 18 years in Great Britain). Loach indicated itself:

Catalog of films

Television

  • 1962 : Z Bus (series)
  • 1964: Diary off has Young Man
  • 1964: The Wednesday Play (series)
  • 1965: has Tap one the Shoulder
  • 1965: 3 Clear Sundays
  • 1965: Up the Junction
  • 1965 : The End off Arthur' S Marriage
  • 1965: Coming Out Party
  • 1966: Cathy Like Home
  • 1967: In Two Minds
  • 1968: The Golden delicious Vision
  • 1969: The Big Flame
  • 1971: After has Lifetime
  • 1971: The Rank and the File
  • 1973: has Misfortune
  • 1975: Days off Hope (serial)
  • 1977: The Price off Coal
  • 1980: Hearings
  • 1981: has Question off Leadership
  • 1983: Questions off Leadership
  • 1983: The Red and the Blue: Impressions off Two Political Conferences - Fall 1982
  • 1989: The View From the Woodpile

Cinema

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