My Name Is Joe
First screened in August 2020
Director: Ken Loach. Cast: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Anne-Marie Kennedy, Gary Lewis, David Hayman, Lorraine McIntosh, Cary Carbin, Paul Clark, Stephen Docherty, Paul Doonan, Paul Gillan, Simon Macallum, Stephen McCole, James McHendry, Gordon McMurray, David Peacock, David Hough, Ann Marie Lafferty, Andy Townsley. Screenplay: Paul Laverty. Twitter Capsule:
Loach and Laverty craft a typically character- and class-specific scenario that achieves rare tension and tragedy.
VOR:④
A few riskier and more innovative films debut each year, but few that dig this fully into complexity and contradiction, especially in working-class milieus.
