From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the Treatment.

What is it that we can say about writer-director Steve McQueen, whose first film is almost 20 years ago now, Hunger,

his first feature-length, dramatic fiction film, except that almost all of his films,

and he'd been here for all of them, by the way, are all about families dealing with a body blow.

His newest film set during the Blitz in London is called Blitz. And I seem to have caught him off guard,

but there is a moment of impact in families in every film that you've made.

And I've always wondered where they came from.

I think family's home.

I think trying to get home.

I think wherever home is, you know, where is your refuge,

where is your place of being, where you belong as such?

You're always looking for home in one way, aren't we?

One way, shape, form or the other.

And I think there's no difference with Blitz right now, the newest picture that they've

done.

You know, I'm just thinking of the recent times of, you know, doing documentaries,

the uprising or the series of films, anthology, small acts.

Again, it's, you know, it's almost a Hansland-Greddle situation.

You're sort of, you're picking up the breadcrumbs to find your way home, you know?

It's funny you mention that because so often I find myself thinking of fairy tales.

And I remember when you were here, we talked about 12 years of slave.

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