Studio B, Unscripted: With Ken Loach and Edouard Louis
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2019
- On this episode of Studio B, famed social-realist film director Ken Loach is in conversation with young French best-selling writer, Edouard Louis.
One of the most successful directors in the history of Cannes Film Festival, Loach has dozens of credits to his name for over 50 years and a career focusing on social issues such as poverty, class, homelessness, and labour rights.
Loach is meeting someone with whom he shares a lot in common and yet their differences are stark.
Louis has risen to fame over the last few years thanks to the success of his first novel, the autobiographical The End of Eddy. Born into a small town working-class French family, Louis' experienced first-hand many of the issues that Loach addresses in his films.
This meeting of minds and cultures highlights how many of the most important things transcend borders and generations - even if there's not always agreement on how to achieve them.
The views expressed in this programme are the guests' own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Studio B, Unscripted is a free-flow conversation between two guests and a small audience, with no mediation, no MC, no TV presenter - focusing on what brings us all together and how we can tackle and discuss some of the big issues of our time.
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Edouard Louis has probably the only truly relatable point of view I’ve seen portrayed on this kind of platform in my life and I say that as a young(ish) working class English man. Factory work is soul destroying to so many of us and even those who are particularly keen on working purely as a source of meaning seem ubiquitously to have other jobs that they would much rather.
The mass of the English population was involved in Factory work for literally centuries!!! Factory work has declined and now we have many people without the anchor of work or community. An excellent dialogue by the way, Edouard Louis is a remarkable young man!
I have been just recently aware of this author through interviews in French . I am amazed by the legacy and re appropriation of story telling also known as literature by the poor.
This is amazing since so far we only know about poverty and oppression by the elite, until recently authors, artists, coming from a different social classes and ethnic backgrounds are able to break grounds and talk from experience. This echoes the work of 19th Zola yet now it is real and while personal , makes it far more objective in perspective.
Stood next to ken in the bookshop yesterday, wanted to congratulate him on the latest movie...but it was Christmas Eve and he looked engrossed in a book, so I will say it here instead.
Congrats on the film!
So much love for both of these men❤️
One of the best Studio B talks. They complimented each other so well.
Thanks so much for posting.
This episode has really inspired me, finally I heard some passion on the left.
Thank you al jazeera 🙏🙏🙏.
What a beautiful exchange of synchronicity of experiencing thoughts. They both walk the talk!!
These problems with this government imposed disenfranchised dignity sucking and life killing agenda is as pervasive in Canada as it is anywhere. I Saw I Daniel and felt such a connection to the film, I have become physically disabled due to a long life of heavy construction, mostly self employed, my body finally broke after 35 years hard labour in an untimely way and my government has since treated me like a social pariah. I see so many people committing suicide who are in the same position as I. The press, of course, ignores it and all the while our existence becomes increasingly untenable with prices skyrocketing from everything from soup to nuts one fears waking up from day to day not knowing what our bitter futures hold! So many have become homeless and instead of this being viewed as an absurd embarrassment to Canada our politicians have successfully made this problem a polarizing issue if discussed at all. Many are force fed the bullshit by the far right parties who consistently imply that the disabled are nothing but drug attics and scammers. To be called a scammer by the premier of my province, a former drug dealer, after a life time of intense physical contribution to my country is enough to make anyone a drug attic. The people have been gamed for so long they’re not sure what to believe and that’s when these fascist bastards sell their proverbial snake oil and within a blink of an eye everyone asks what happened and how did we get here. So let’s continue to ignore the past and see if we can get it even more wrong just one more time!
FABULOUS!!! The truth...
Ken is a good guy and a man of the people
Ken Loach says it how it is!
I am surprised the French guy feels so much about gay issues as most French films and culture that are around and about appeared very open minded to the point of promiscuity 🤔
He said something quite interesting on this matter in a French interview about the fact that he is class-passing and that it was not induced by his own will, by a desire to free himself from his social environment but rather by the fact that the working class (to which he used to belong) gave him no choice by excluding him because of his homosexuality. Other milieus, like the bourgeois milieu of which you speak, is to him less excluding, more tolerant on this subject.
Edouard the working class whisperer
The nostalgic effect timely love because yew orally warm amongst a redundant stomach. tiresome, incandescent baker
The people your are talking about are well aware of these themes so explanation is pointless and the people you want to educate, won’t bother watching what they think is “leftist propaganda”. So I have to ask myself, other than ego petting, what the point of this video is.
This Edward guy is such a class and identity hustler. Ken Loach can obviously see right through this con artist with his “bodies and spaces” rubbish.
He talks like that cos he went to university. He did legit grow up poor though.