THE OLD OAK
April 19 – 21
Friday, April 19 | 6:00 pm
Saturday, April 20 | 3:00 pm | 5:15 pm | 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 21 | 3:00 pm | 5:15 pm
Director Ken Loach, Drama, Not Rated, UK, English, 2024, 113 min.
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once-thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees moves into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants. The formation of an unexpected friendship between TJ and a young Syrian woman named Yara opens up new possibilities for the divided village in this deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope.
Perhaps the last movie of Ken Loach, the incomparable British director of powerful social and humanly conscious dramas. The award-winning director of Kes, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I, Daniel Blake, and numerous other movies announced his retirement a decade ago but the advent of recent Conservative British politicians spurred his voice and camera again. La Lutte continues!
