The Old Oak is the name of a pub which also serves as the title of Ken Loach’s latest film. And as the director’s final feature, it’s a good reference to him as well –unwavering, deeply rooted and long a part of the English landscape.
After I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You, the movie completes a trilogy all set in contemporary northeast England.
Like those films, could not be made by anyone else but British cinema’s greatest proponent of social realism. It paints a