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10/18/08
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A Fond Kiss (2004)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:20
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.4/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 26, 2004 Limited
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... [More]
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05/20/08
Top CriticAn example of cinema verite at its very best.
08/01/07
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.
05/25/07
The film tells its tale so convincingly and stirringly, the familiarity becomes unimportant.
03/01/07
Loach delivers another of his beautifully observed portraits of working-class people in social and political turmoil.
10/29/06
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06/24/06
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.
10/13/05
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07/29/05
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05/20/05
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.
04/21/05
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.
03/10/05
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12/18/04
I was offered a ring of movie matrimony, but it was less than a perfect fit
12/17/04
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.
12/05/04
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.
11/29/04
Top CriticEnglish-language East-West domestic dramas usually tip the scales in favor of modernity... But A Fond Kiss is equally sympathetic to each side.
11/29/04
Top CriticAlthough 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.
11/29/04
Top CriticIt's an old-fashioned story told with fine, contemporary insight.
11/29/04
[Loach] sheds little new light on the inevitable clashes between parents rooted to their native culture and their Western-influenced offspring.
11/29/04
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