48ème Festival International du Film de Cannes

Marion Hänsel brings forth a parable with images of universal significance: the simplest human encounter can revive a taste for life and hope.

In a society that is losing its bearings and forgetting its roots, Ken Loach's film has the double merit of inviting us not to lose memory of the past, a condition for opening up a different future, and of reminding us that despite the danger of ideologies, personal commitment, which makes one responsible in history, remains a value of topicality.