Set in Glasgow, the film centers around a reformed alcoholic, Joe. Unemployed, grabbing jobs whenever he can, he channels his restless energy through a no-hope football team. When he meets health - visitor Sarah, an unlikely relationship develops which reality sets to thwart: the two live in different worlds in the same city, and each has a past and vulnerability that makes them wary of commitment. Joe's naοve quest to set the world to rights is an added obstacle to their lasting happiness and leads him on the path to self-destruction.
My name is Joe
My name is Joe
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- Direction: Ken Loach
- Script: Paul Laverty
- Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd
- Editing: Jonathan Morris
- Sound: Ray Beckett
- Music: George Fenton
- Actors: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, Lorraine McIntosh
- Production: Parallax Pictures
- Producers: Rebecca O'Brien
- Costumes: Rhona Russel
- Sets: Martin Johnson
- Format: DCP
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain
- Production Year: 1998
- Duration: 105'
Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labor rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001). Loach’s film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice. Loach also holds the record for most films in the main competition at Cannes, with fifteen films.
Filmography
1967 Poor Cow
1971 Family Life
1979 Black Jack
1981 Looks and Smiles
1984 Which Side Are You On? (doc)
1990 Hidden Agenda
1994 Ladybird Ladybird
1995 Land and Freedom
1996 Carla's Song
1998 My Name Is Joe
2000 Bread and Roses
2002 Sweet Sixteen
2004 A Fond Kiss
2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley
2007 It’s a Free World...
2010 Route Irish
2014 Jimmy's Hall
2016 I, Daniel Blake
2019 Sorry We Missed You
2023 The Old Oak
1971 Family Life
1979 Black Jack
1981 Looks and Smiles
1984 Which Side Are You On? (doc)
1990 Hidden Agenda
1994 Ladybird Ladybird
1995 Land and Freedom
1996 Carla's Song
1998 My Name Is Joe
2000 Bread and Roses
2002 Sweet Sixteen
2004 A Fond Kiss
2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley
2007 It’s a Free World...
2010 Route Irish
2014 Jimmy's Hall
2016 I, Daniel Blake
2019 Sorry We Missed You
2023 The Old Oak
