Ken Loach Wins At Cannes, Now His Life Is Over

From Celebrity Cafe....

Famed British director finally wins top prize at international festival, leading many Americans to shrug and go back to their mutants and albinos.....

Loach .. "used his opportunity at the podium to rail against fluff and fantasy"

  After 40 years behind the helm of films that often portrayed the dour, filthy underbelly holding a capitalist empire like Britain's together, Ken Loach has finally been recognized for his decades of work when he won the top prize at Cannes. Loach, who had been nominated for the prize, the Palme d'Or, seven times previously (although he has not once been nominated for a Oscar or Bafta) has always been a stalwart for the political left and, some say, a consumate critic of the American-dominated mainstream in film. Some took his latest film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which tells the story of two brothers who fight in the IRA against both the British colonial authorities and the brutal militia of the Black and Tans, was not just a look back at the moral wages of Britain's empire but also an allegory of the current situation in Iraq. 

"a career marked by compassion for the common man"