Product Details

• Actors: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Shamshad Akhtar, Ghizala Avan, Gerard Kelly
• Directors: Ken Loach
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 4 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000ER1I00
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #562,216 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

New Zealand released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: In Glasgow, Scotland, the Pakistani parents of Casim Khan have decided that he is going to marry his cousin Jasmine. Unfortunately, Casim has just fallen in love with his younger sister's music teacher Roisin. Not only is she 'goree', a white woman, she is also Irish and catholic, things that may not go down well with Casim's parents. They start a relationship but Casim is torn between following his heart and being a good son. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, British Independent Film Awards, Ceasar Awards, European Film Awards, ...Ae Fond Kiss... ( A Fond Kiss... ) ( Un Bacio appassionato )

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5.0 out of 5 stars I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU !, May 15, 2007

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This review is from: Ae Fond Kiss... ( A Fond Kiss... ) ( Un Bacio appassionato ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - New Zealand ] (DVD)

Acclaimed British director Ken Loach, the director of Family Life (1972), Kes and Land & Freedom, 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 in the social and familial environment they live in. Ken Loach and the script writer Paul Laverty, in order to give more weight to their demonstration, chose to describe the main characters as if they were living symbols of their social background. Hence Roisin is of course caucasian but also a blond girl who seems to have just landed from Scandinavia. She doesn't have any family left and has just left her husband. On the contrary, Kasim lives with his family, is on the verge of marrying a cousin from Pakistan he hasn't met yet, and is unconsciously impregnated by the religious and social environment of the British Pakistani community.

At the end of the film, the solution advocated by the director is the separation, not the separation of the couple but the separation between Kasim and his untolerant family. Such a behavior seems to work in the movie but I really don't know if it would work in our everyday life.

A DVD zone your library.