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Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty team up again for the romantic drama Ae Fond Kiss. The filmmaking team's third film set in Glasgow, this story involves a mixed-race relationship that causes... read more
DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
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August 4, 2011A modern Romeo and Juliet story directed by Ken Loach. It may be a little soapy sometimes but it is always honest, told with simplicity and raising some solid questions about religious and cultural intolerance.
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November 11, 2010They speak English in Scotland, but you need subtitles to understand them. I really enjoyed this movie. It explores many aspects of cross-cultural relationships with honesty and without oversimplifying it. Although the main plot deals with a romantic relationship between a non-pr... read more
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November 14, 2008fb1144932598Religious and cultural intolerance provide the conflict in this film about two people who meet and fall in love despite their differences. She is an Irish Catholic girl, teaching in a parochial school in Glasgow. He is a Pakitani Muslim man whose parents emigrated forty years ago... read more
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March 8, 2010Ae fond kiss was more than a love story, it really spoke the difficulties from those of different backgrounds and religion when they fell in love. Family, society,careers, were deciding their lives. I enjoyed this movie from beginning to end.It had just the right amounts of humo... read more
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June 6, 2009This is a modern Romeo and Juliet movie, set in Glascow. The star-crossed lovers are a Muslim and a lapsed Catholic. A good little film with insightful social commentary.
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July 30, 2008Here is an extraordinary movie with an intriguing story plot. This movie follows the life and love of Roisin and Casim. When you love, you cannot help who you fall for and nor do you expect when it happens. Great cast. Fantastic music. Definitely worth seeing.
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October 14, 2009Somehow the thought of a forbidden romance between a Catholic and a Muslim doesn't seem all that taboo to me. If the Muslim woman was incredibly beautiful and the Catholic guy looked like Danny DeVito? Then yeah, there'd be a controversy.
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October 29, 2008An adorable love story in Romeo and Juliet style. His family is Muslim and very traditional - she is a backsliding Catholic, but their love overcomes all of these obstacles in the end. It is too bad that his family can't except her - the ending would have been perfect then.
Critic Reviews
November 29, 2004
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
November 29, 2004
Stephen Holden, New York Times
English-language East-West domestic dramas usually tip the scales in favor of modernity... But A Fond Kiss is equally sympathetic to each side. Full Review
November 29, 2004
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Although Loach takes pains to present all sides of the issues he raises, he courageously faces up to the truth about people's lives, which is his abiding strength. Full Review
November 23, 2004
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
Even at its most rigged, there's always just enough to admire in the Loach model. Full Review
May 25, 2007
Prairie Miller, Long Island Press
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.
March 1, 2007
Eric Monder, Film Journal International
The film tells its tale so convincingly and stirringly, the familiarity becomes unimportant. Full Review
October 29, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Loach delivers another of his beautifully observed portraits of working-class people in social and political turmoil. Full Review
October 13, 2005
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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. Full Review
April 21, 2005
Brian Gibson, Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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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