The Old Oak

The future is uncertain for The Old Oak, the last remaining pub in a village of Northeast England where people are leaving as the mines close. Houses are cheap and available, and the pub is soon considered an ideal location for Syrian refugees. Director Ken Loach, a master storyteller of ordinary people and their problems (I, Daniel Blake), uses his cinema verite style of documentary fiction to address this very modern dilemma. A New York Times Critics’ Pick.