Yahoo Movies Hot Cannes Trailer: Ken Loach’s ‘Jimmy’s Hall’
Cannes Film Festival Competition title Jimmy’s Hall is expected to be the last narrative feature from veteran helmer Ken Loach. This year will mark British director’s 12th time in Competition. He won the Palme d’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and has taken the Jury Prize three times, for The Angel’s Share (2012), Raining Stones (1993) and Hidden Agenda (1990). This time around, Loach settles on a 1930s period film based on the true story of a man who built a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland where young people could gather to learn, argue, dream, and above all, dance and have fun. But problems arise when the meeting place runs afoul of the church. Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton and Sherlock‘s Andrew Scott star. Loach’s longtime collaborator Paul Laverty wrote the script. Entertainment One is releasing in the UK on May 30. There is currently no U.S. distributor; Wild Bunch has international sales.
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