Ken Loach

Reviews

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

By Josh Timmerman

Ken Loach’s controversial Palm d’Or winner is a work of supreme ambivalence. [11 September 2007]

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Ken Loach's Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film uses a familiar narrative form, it does so in a way that leaves the form itself in doubt, heroizing no one, offering no resolution. [16 March 2007]

A Fond Kiss (2003)

By Lester Pimentel

At the end of A Fond Kiss, Ken Loach's latest film, we are left with a lingering anxiety about the viability of interracial relationships. [17 December 2004]

Bread and Roses (2000)

By Jonathan Beebe

Using a Mexican immigrant to talk about class in America, director Ken Loach explores the ways that race and ethnicity are intricately bound to questions of empowerment and wealth. [1 January 1995]