'I, Daniel Blake' wins Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival

British director Ken Loach's film, 'I, Daniel Blake' has the won the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

The heartfelt drama about the UK benefits system stars United's very own HAYLEY SQUIRES as Katie, a single mother silently starving herself in order to feed her children, and the score was composed by UA's GEORGE FENTON. 

Cannes judges praised the actors' depictions of the characters who "find themselves in no-man's land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of 'striver and skiver' in modern day Britain" and Jury member Donald Sutherland praised I, Daniel Blake as “an absolutely terrific movie that resonates in your heart and soul,”

You can read the full 4* review from The Guardian here.