I, Daniel Blake ~ 22nd January 2017
Sunday 22nd January at 7.00 p.m.
Admission: £3.50 ~ all seats unreserved. Doors open 30 min before screening.
Certificate 15 ~ 100 minutes.
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires and Sharon Percy.
The eponymous Daniel is an affable, 59-year-old carpenter in Newcastle, fighting to collect his Employment and Support Allowance after falling ill. Waiting to sign on at the local Job-centre, Daniel befriends Katie, a young single mother who is also being shoved around by the vagaries of the system, having just been relocated with her two kids from a London homeless shelter to an affordable council flat up north. A mutually beneficial alliance, and makeshift extended family, is formed.
This calm, clear, painfully credible take on austerity Britain is Ken Loach’s best film in years.
Doors open 30 min. before screenings for Front Row and Sunday cinema.
Ricks Café is open for tea, coffee and refreshments on Sundays for 30 min. prior to screenings.