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A Fond Kiss (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 20  Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.4/10

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Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for some strong sexuality and language

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Theatrical Release: 17-09-2004

Synopsis: Ken Loach, known for his gritty, realistic dramas, delivers his most lighthearted film to date with A FOND KISS. While maintaining Loach's characteristic propensity for addressing important and complex social issues, A FOND KISS also depicts a comfortably middle-class Glasgow... Ken Loach, known for his gritty, realistic dramas, delivers his most lighthearted film to date with A FOND KISS. While maintaining Loach's characteristic propensity for addressing important and complex social issues, A FOND KISS also depicts a comfortably middle-class Glasgow populated by characters with hopes, dreams, and vacation time. Casim (Atta Yaqub) is the treasured only son of a first-generation Pakistani family, who is engaged to his cousin, Jasmine; the couple is soon to wed and move into an addition to the family home. Less than enthusiastic, Casim is nonetheless resigned to his fate until he meets Roisin (Eva Birthistle), the music teacher at his younger sister's elementary school. Roisin is beautiful, quirky, white, and Catholic, and Casim initiates a relationship that soon blossoms into an intense affair that revives his spirit. Unfortunately, it also inspires opposition and bigotry from all sides, and the two are forced to navigate a sea of social antagonisms along the way. The actors, all of whom were unknowns at the time of shooting, provide a surprising freshness and believability, avoiding the the pitfalls of predictability that threaten the old story of star-crossed lovers. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Eva Birthistle, Atta Yaqub

Director: Ken Loach

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 3, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

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06/24/06
Time Out
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This is believable, intelligent filmmaking. It's just that, considering the makers' pedigree, Ae Fond Kiss... is more of a peck than a smacker.

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10/06/04
Nev Pierce
BBC
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4/5

[Loach] manages to reach beyond social debate to touch you on an emotional level.

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09/19/04
Alan Morrison
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09/18/04
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05/20/08
Leslie Felperin
Variety
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4/4

An example of cinema verite at its very best.

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08/01/07
Kam Williams
Sly Fox
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With Loach's Romeo and Juliet in a post-9/11 world, his dramatic focus on an increasingly nomadic planet is both spare and blistering.

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05/25/07
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press
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The film tells its tale so convincingly and stirringly, the familiarity becomes unimportant.

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03/01/07
Eric Monder
Film Journal International
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Loach delivers another of his beautifully observed portraits of working-class people in social and political turmoil.

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10/29/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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For Loach, the liberal filmmaker who is considered in film circles to be the social conscience of films, this is one of his lesser films.

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10/13/05
Dennis Schwartz
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07/29/05
Lester Pimentel
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05/20/05
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A wonderful ensemble drama that gently draws you into its political concerns with richly personal dramas, showing the bruising ups and downs of love and family heartache.

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04/21/05
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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Consummate recorders of the grit-and-grime struggle of the underclasses, Loach and collaborator Paul Laverty employ rapid-fire dialogue (rendered ear-poppingly undecipherable in Scots accents) in disheveled and very real family settings.

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03/10/05
Laura Kelly
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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12/18/04
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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I was offered a ring of movie matrimony, but it was less than a perfect fit

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12/17/04
Jules Brenner
Filmcritic.com
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Despite its flaws, it tackles the societal forces that try to enforce laws on the human heart with such unblinking honesty that it becomes haunting and thought-provoking.

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12/05/04
Brett Buckalew
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A small movie, told in a familiar way, and it fails to draw the big picture it could. But it does provide one unusual, and very striking sketch of two lives in crisis, and one community in transition.

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11/29/04
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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English-language East-West domestic dramas usually tip the scales in favor of modernity... But A Fond Kiss is equally sympathetic to each side.

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11/29/04
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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