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A Fond Kiss, 2004

Starring: Eva Birthistle, Atta Yaqub

Directed by: Ken Loach

Written by: Paul Laverty

Language: English, Punjabi

Country: UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain

Runtime: 104 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.1

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The mood of A Fond Kiss is touching and sentimental. The plot centers around forbidden love, immigrants, and culture clash. It is a drama and romance movie. Stylistically, A Fond Kiss is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. A Fond Kiss takes place, at least partly, at a nightclub and at a school. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a date night.

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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.

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Language:	English, Punjabi
Country:	UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain
Release date:	26 November 2004
Runtime:	104 min

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Eva Birthistle

as Roisin Hanlon

Atta Yaqub

as Casim Khan

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TV Guide

The film is beautifully told and superbly acted. More importantly, Paul Laverty's screenplay goes along way toward showing how the traditionalism that can turn a community inward on itself is often a response to racism, and in that sense the film's... Full Review

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by: Ken Fox

Variety

The flatness of several of the key performances badly lets down this promising material. Full Review

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by: Leslie Felperin

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