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Apr 5, 2024 · Eighty-seven-year-old filmmaker Ken Loach's "The Old Oak" is about how changing demographics in a struggling English town called Durham manifest in a crumbling old pub, the last public space that everyone claims as their own.
Apr 4, 2024 · “The Old Oak” is named for the pub where much of its action happens — an old drinking hole in a village outside of Durham, England, that’s seen better days.
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times.
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The Old Oak is a 2023 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty. It is a co-production between the United Kingdom, France and Belgium. After its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2023, by StudioCanal.
Apr 5, 2024 · Ken Loach has said that The Old Oak will be his final film. With this portrait of downtrodden families learning to come together, he seems to have found some reasons for optimism.
With The Old Oak, Ken Loach goes out with one last, full-throated call for brotherhood and solidarity. It’s the most hopeful the old soldier’s been in years. Full Review | Apr 5, 2024
Apr 24, 2023 · Ken Loach has said that The Old Oak, his latest feature, will be his last.Probably. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of what will mark his 18th film premiering at the Cannes Film Festival ...
The 28th feature directed by master of social realism Ken Loach, THE OLD OAK follows a once-vibrant mining town’s response to the arrival of a group of Syrian refugees.
May 26, 2023 · “The Old Oak” catches you up — for a while. The performances of Turner and Mari have pain and soul. But this is the last movie that should be turning into a Kumbaya progressive fairy tale.
The Old Oak is a film directed by Ken Loach with Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Debbie Honeywood, Andy Dawson .... Year: 2023. Original title: The Old Oak. Synopsis: The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed.
