Wednesday October 23rd 2019
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UK   2014    109 minutes
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry

In 1932 Jimmy Gralton returns to his native Irish village after ten years in exile in New York. In stark contrast to the young energy and enthusiasm he has enjoyed in America, he finds the people dispirited by the behaviour of the local ‘establishment’, in particular the local killjoy priest and the land-owning village squire (it is also the time of the Depression, when many families emigrated}. Jimmy reopens the village hall, creating a social centre where the villagers can sing, paint, study and (worst of all) dance together. For this exercise in practical socialism he is once more forced out of the village, never to return. A thought-provoking film from the creator of ‘I, Daniel Blake’.