Kenneth Loach’s Riff-Raff, Between the British Documentary Tradition and the Working-Class Cinema by José Díaz Cuesta

“…Riff-Raff (1991) is analysed as a functional hinge between the British documentary movement of the twenties, the free cinema of the fifties and the present current of social films such as Trainspotting (1996), Brassed off (1996) or The Full Monty (1997). Kenneth Loach seems to have incorporated the theoretical doctrine of the British documentary tradition in most of his films, especially in Riff-Raff, as we can see in his way of dealing with scripts and actors. …”
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