“The Old Oak”, interview with director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty

Sense of community, solidarity, humanity, mutual understanding and hope can help to overcome the gap that divides different people. After winning two Palms d’Or (for “The Wind That Shakes the Barley“ and “I, Daniel Blake“), Ken Loach has returned in competition at Festival de Cannes 2023 with “The Old Oak“, a political and social movie always written with Paul Laverty, and in Italian cinemas from November 16th distributed by Lucky Red.

Strength, solidarity, resistance, organisation

During our meeting in Cannes, Loach said: “Strength, solidarity and resistance are words of our time. But there are other important words, such as organisation. Without it we cannot win”.

Community forms are possibile

According to the director, 87 years old, “We live in a digital society that isolates us from each other and makes it difficult to create moments of solidarity. But community forms are possible, because the problems affect everyone”.

The important thing is to have hope

Loach and Laverty believe in hope, as we can see in “The Old Oak“: “Hope is a political question. If people have hope it means they believe they can change things. If people don’t have hope, they are cynical, feel weak and desperate”.

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