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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: FOND KISS, A (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0031398171959
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 17151
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Casim is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues Casim dreams of buying his own club.A teacher at his sister Tahara's school Roisin is different from any girl he's ever met. She's gorgeous intelligent and definitely possesses a mind of her own. She and Casim soon fall deeply in love. But sparks fly as cultures clash and personalities collide.Special FeaturesWidescreen Version 2.0 Dolby StereoScene SelectionsSpanish and English SubtitlesSystem Requirements: Running Time 114 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: NR UPC: 031398171959 Manufacturer No: 17195
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Vintage Loach!
Ken Loach's movie is always gritty, truthful, relevant, and very human. This movie is marketed as a modern version of Romeo & Juliet but it's broader than that. Instead of rivalry between families, it touches upon religion, race, generation gap, and choices we make in lives. Instead of projecting the whites having prejudice against the others, this movie shows that racism could come from the others too. It comes to the point when people have to decide whether to follow their own hearts or ... Read More
Rating:  - Romance vs reality . . .
Leave it to Ken Loach to illuminate the real-world complications in a romantic story about star-crossed lovers. The romance is surely there in the magnetic presence of its two lovers, Roisin (Eva Birthistle) and Casim (Atta Yaqub). She's the young Irish music teacher and he's the only son of a tightly knit Pakistani family, all of them living in Glasgow. The social and cultural forces bent on keeping the two lovers apart are formidable and merciless, and the relationship falters and founders sometimes ... Read More
Rating: - Ken Loach as a director is little known in USA,
partly because for many years he was virtually blacklisted as a Trotskyite and political subversive, on account of his gritty 60s and 70s social dramas. The plot of this film ( which with a lesser director would have been straight Romeo and Juliet) has been fairly well rehearsed by previous reviewers so I'll skip, if I may quickly to appraisal.
I know of no other director who can take an "ordinary" theme, in this case love across the racial/ religious divide and have you on the edge of your seat ... Read More
Rating: - I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU !
Acclaimed British director Ken Loach, the director of Family Life, Kes and Land and Freedom DVD, shot FOND KISS..., AE in 2003. The film earned a few awards in European film festivals but, until now, it hasn't been theatrically released in the U.S.A.
This movie is about the difficulties undergone by Roisin Hanlon, an Irish music teacher working in a catholic school in Glasgow, Scotland, and Casim Khan, a Pakistani young man of the second generation, in order to have a regular love affair ... Read More
Rating: - Simple, straight-forward tale about society & culture
I really enjoyed this movie when I rented it from the local blockbuster. I liked it so much, I bought it! I even nagged my GF to see it too, I felt so strongly about its worth as an illuminating look into the struggles individuals go through when culture and religion come between two people who simply want to explore their mutual feelings for each other. It's a worthwhile tale and you should see it.
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