Two artists from different countries and different generations, the English director Ken Loach and the French writer Édouard Louis, discuss cinema, literature, and politics.

How can art approach the issue of class violence, and what is the role of the left when the most vulnerable turn to the far right?

Ken Loach and Édouard Louis, despite their distinct and sometimes opposing paths and experiences, offer an exceptionally fruitful conversation that transcends the simple conflict between laborism and identity politics, towards an aesthetics of political struggle.