The 2014 Cannes Film Festival is currently in full swing, and will soon see the screening of the highly anticipated “Jimmy’s Hall”, a film directed by acclaimed director Ken Loach.
In the same vein as his other film “The Wind Rises”, “Jimmy’s Hall” is set in Ireland in the 1930s, and depicts the country as an island in search of identity, torn between past and future, struggling to recover from the damage of the 1920s Civil War.
Set in 1932, the story follows Jimmy Gralton (played by Barry Ward), an Irishman exiled for 10 years in the USA, who decides to return home to County Leitrim to help his mother run the family farm. He discovered a new Ireland, with a new government and a new geopolitical division of the territory.
Much in demand by local youngsters, Jimmy decided to reopen the “Hall”, a kind of free youth hostel, where friends gather to dance, chat and even study. Success followed, and Jimmy became increasingly famous and influential. But the young man’s progressive ideas and verve are not to the liking of most of the villagers, and tensions are growing…
We wish Ken Loach every success with this film!
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