El viejo roble

...a comparatively gentle, reflective and even tentatively hopeful work.

Ken Loach’s swan song is a moving clarion call for a better tomorrow.

I hope that this isn’t Loach’s final film, but if it is, he has concluded with a ringing statement of faith in compassion for the oppressed.

Poignancy and hopefulness commingle in this earnest, British-set piece of social realism portraiture.

---the film finds an empathetic approach with even its ugliest characters.