Just A Kiss (Ae Fonde Kiss) 2005_Ken Loach

Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)

Genre: Drama | Romance
Release: 14 July 2004 (France)
Running time: 104 min
Director: Ken Loach
Screenplay: Paul Laverty
With: Atta Yacub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz
Ae Fond Kiss, the third part of his so-called
"Glasgow trilogy" with writer Paul Laverty
(after My Name Is Joe and Sweet Sixteen).


The archaic-sounding title comes from an old Robert Burns poem.
It's a story of love across the ethnic divide. Roisin (Eva Birthistle)
is a young Catholic teacher who starts an affair with Casim (Atta Yaqub),
a second-generation Scottish-Pakistani. The hitch is that he is due to marry
his cousin in nine weeks' time and his parents, Tariq and Sadia, devout Muslims,
are appalled that he has chosen to live with a "goree", a white girl.

For Loach and Laverty, Ae Fond Kiss is about assimilation, racism, arranged
marriages and the problems of immigrant families. They wanted to explore "another part of
Scottish culture". Loach, for his part, describes the relationship at the heart of Ae Fond Kiss
in typically downbeat language. "It's two people who fancy each other, and want to be
together, and get on - that's not romantic: that's the way you are when you meet somebody
you really enjoy being with; like and laugh with and are touched by and care for."
Source: The Guardian
Awards:
- BAFTA Scotland Award (Best Actress in Scottis Film - Eva Bristle)
- César Award - France
- London Critics Film Award
- Berlin Int. Film Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury & Prize of
the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
(Nominated for Golden Bear)
- Propeller of Motovun
- Nominated in BIFA Awards for British Independent Film Award
A/V Specifications:
Frame Width: 592
Frame Height: 320
Data Rate: 868kbps
Total Bitrate: 974kbps
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Audio bitrate: 105kbps
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Audio sample rate: 48 kHz
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