Kes

Image   This time I want to share with you one of my favorite films, by one of my favorite directors. This is Kes (1969) by Ken Loach, one of the main exponents of the British Free Film movement against Hollywood's contrived style. Adapted from the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (Barry Hines, 1968), the story follows the life of Billy, a boy with no future who is bullied by his older brother at school and consider…

Kes (1969) Dir — Ken Loach source Watching Kes was a scintillating experience. At first, I was reliving my teenage days. I realized, later on, it represented every single childhood I knew around me, perhaps all the lower middle class childhoods are like that all over the world. The protagonist of the film, the 15-year-old teenage boy, is a reflection looking back at me through the mirror. Running through the woods w…

I usually have mixed feelings about "all time best of" lists of movies. Not least by "so-called" authorities like critics, television and directors. Even if I review movies myself, it is my goal to give you my personal point of view as much as I can, without peaking too much at what other may think. A consensus may have evolved into a religion where nobody dares to critique it anymore, in any other fashion like the…