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Acting
Dave Johns and Hayley Squires deliver crushing non-professional authenticity.
Direction
Loach's invisible hand makes fiction feel like stolen documentary footage.
Writing
Every form, every phone call, every 'computer says no' builds unbearable tension.

Director
Ken Loach
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