 The commercial interest expressed in the United Kingdom was  initially much lower than in other European countries and only 30  prints of the film were planned for distribution in the UK, compared  with 300 in France. However, after the Palme dOr award the film  appeared on 105 screens in the UK. in the UK, more than three times  larger than the UK release for any of Ken Loach (qv)’s previous  films.