Cathy Come Home (Ken Loach 1966)
Posted on May 08 at 16.00, 2004 by Eric Mahleb
Ken Loach’s influential docu-drama, made for the BBC in 1966, is an emotional downward ride into despair. Extremely effective, it helped raise awareness to the cause of the homeless and that of housing conditions in Britain, considerably lower at that time than in many European countries. Unfortunately, the political agenda sometimes overpowers the film, and we can’t help but feeling a little manipulated…
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