FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Ken Loach - The Angel's Share 

For 50 years Ken Loach has been unswerving in his pursuit. He films people's moods and shows us their spontaneous behaviour through a special lens: telephoto. A style that looks decidedly British! Likewise, Loach creates his realism, which is repeatedly broken by humor. Loach's Passion: Socialism! The "little people". This may almost deter modern moviegoers, but first and foremost Ken Loach is an excellent narrator. This time we see a young father involved in a crime that could destroy his future. But the carefree soundtrack of the Scottish The Proclaimers proves that this will not happen. Let's leave the plot aside for once and no longer care whether this film is dramatic or cheerful. The view is decisive! Here an old man looks at the lives of boys desperately looking for a job. A man whose vision was shaped during the 70s and the dark Thatcher phase. Loach loves these middle-class dramas and has influenced British cinema like no other. Behind all the public favourites of British comedy of the past 30 years - isn't that the realism of Ken Loach? "Politics determines how you photograph people," Loach once explained. If you show the figures in a friendly light, we identify with them. That simple. Here, however, a diffuse light falls on Robbie, slightly refracted through the window glass. In American movies, that's how you show agents or criminals. But then Robbie's face is also illuminated by warm sunlight. That's how it is with Loach. A socialist thinker in a capitalist democracy still grants everyone their share of sunlight.