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Ken Loach criticises the hypocritical treatment of refugees
In an interview with Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, British film director Ken Loach, whose film about immigrants 'It's a free world' is currently showing at Polish cinemas, criticises the British for what he sees as their hypocritical treatment of refugees. "Every day the right-wing newspapers run articles that foment hostility towards newcomers. The publishers accuse them of taking away 'our' privileges, 'our' hospital beds and the desks at 'our' schools. For these journalists, the inference appears to be clear: foreigners should leave. Yet employers with right-wing views like to employ them. This is the hypocrisy of the right - throw them out but exploit them first. The challenge for the left consists in making it clear to the British that the British and the immigrants share the same interests: they want security, social protection, a decent income and to see their dignity respected."
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Ken Lach bemoans how capitalism is governing the world
The exploitation of immigrant workers in the UK is the subject treated by British film-maker Ken Loach in his latest film, 'It's a Free World'. Interviewed by Frédéric Théobold, he evokes how powerless film-makers feel. "You have to be naïve to think that a film can oppose the economic forces that govern the planet. My answer for people who ask me what is to be done is, join trade-unions and get immigrant workers to do the same. If, as a film-maker, I am powerless, the working class, by contrast, can weigh upon which way the world goes. This is because without the working class, the economy will come to a stand-still. ... This being said, the system is like a crazy machine that nobody can control anymore. ... How to stop this machine before it destroys the planet? For the first time in the history of humanity, this destruction is not only possible, but probable."
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Ken Loach on historical cinema
British director Ken Loach tells Barbara Hollender that the most interesting films are those "that show the workings of history. Audiences can identify with current heroes, or at least understand them. The other films, ones that show images of the past, often force you to rethink your own judgments, to re-evaluate what you always thought to be true. And that is not pleasant. But I believe you should recount the past and thereby rescue it from oblivion. Because without it, there is no present."
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The political debate over 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'
In an interview with Laurent Rigoulet, British director Ken Loach talks about how the public received his latest film, 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley', about the Irish War of Independance in the 1920's. "There were some very interesting discussions, but especially in Ireland, where people want to rediscover this period in their history, the true nature of the political stakes and the sacrifices that an entire generation agreed to make. In England, the debate was dominated by columnists from the right-wing press. When the film won the Golden Palm [at the Cannes film festival], their aggressivity turned into hysteria. I was compared to Leni Riefenstahl [Hitler's favourite filmmaker], the film itself was compared to 'Mein Kampf', people said I was an enemy of the homeland and that I had made a propaganda film for the IRA [Irish Republican Army] using public funds."
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Ken Loach supports Iraqi resistance
The British director Ken Loach presented his new film, 'The wind that shakes the barley', a story about the Irish struggle for independence, in Cannes on Thursday, May 18. He looks back on this historic period (1916-1921) in an interview with Aurora Intxausti. "The British acted brutally and the response to their actions was the attacks carried out by bands of young people who, while lacking any political culture, were defending their right to live freely in their own country. Many of them acted out of idealism and a yearning for independence. ... The resistance put up by the Irish at the beginning of the last century is identical to that of latter-day Iraqis against the invasion launched by the United States and the United Kingdom. The armies of both countries must quit this territory. This is an illegal war."
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