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Full Time opens in darkness. All we can hear is the sound of a sleeping woman breathing. It’s one of the few quiet moments in a film that follows Julie (Laure Calamy) as she scrambles to manage her life. Divorced with two young children, she lives in a village and commutes to Paris. It’s still dark when she drops off her kids with an elderly child minder and it’s dark again when she picks them up after a long day’s work in the city. 

Catherine Breillat, Wim Wenders, Alice Rohrwacher, and Ken Loach were the last auteurs to have work premiere in this year's competition.

The director, 86, is a two-time winner of the Palme d’Or

Ken Loach's final film, "The Old Oak," brings his signature brand of socially conscious filmmaking back to Cannes.

While much talk at Cannes this year has been about the unprecedented seven women directors in competition, an impressive cavalcade of ageing maestros has charmed the French Riviera festival, with 86-year-old…

Geriatric Croisette: Loach leads old white dudes at Cannes

The Partnership: 'The Old Oak's Ken Loach and Paul Laverty take on themes of humanity and social responsibility in their Cannes Competition entry.

While much talk at Cannes this year has been about the unprecedented seven women directors in competition, an impressive cavalcade of old white guys has also

By Hanna Rantala CANNES (Reuters) - Ken Loach said on Friday he does not know if "The Old Oak," the 86-year-old British director's attempt to win the ...

The often great director’s latest slab of social realism – possibly his last – is so Loachian it borders on parody