Ken Loach has just got the Prix de Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his Glasgow-based comedy The Angels' Share, written by screenplayer and Loach collaborator Paul Laverty.
The film follows the vicissitudes of Robbie, who has just avoided jail, and has promised his girlfriend and their newborn baby to change his lifestyle. Unfortunately for his new family he decides of doing so with a last robbery, albeit a whisky flavoured one.
I have a soft spot for Scotland (even though, by leafing through Glasgow's local paper The Herald and its terribly unstylish fashion section, you would never guess that Christopher Kane came from here...) and, though I think it will be impossible for me to watch the scenes in this film involving the local court and somehow not cringe (not because I've had problems with the local justice, but because I've worked there as interpreter...), well-done congratulations to the team behind the film and well-done to Loach for accepting the award remembering all those people who are going through hard times because of austerity programmes and cuts.
That said, now I'm wondering if having Loach's fan Nanni Moretti as President of the Jury and kilt lover Jean Paul Gaultier as jury member may have facilitated the choice. Who knows. Anyway, The Golden Palm went to Amour (Love), directed by Michael Haneke, but you can follow The Guardian's live blog if you want to keep updated with the other awards as they are revealed.
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