KES (CRITERION) (BLU-RAY)

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Named one of the ten best British films of the century by the British Film Institute, Ken Loach’s Kes, is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic David Bradley) is a fifteen-year-old miner’s son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Kes brought to the big screen the sociopolitical engagement Loach had established in his work for the BBC, and pushed the British “angry young man” film of the sixties into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and nonprofessional actors. Loach’s poignant coming-of-age drama remains the now legendary director’s most beloved and influential film.
• Cast: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes, Bernard Atha, Joey Kaye, Robert Naylor, George Speed, Zoe Sutherland, Eric Bolderson, Joe Miller, Bill Dean, Geoffrey Banks, Duggie Brown, Trevor Hesketh, Stephen Crossland, Harry Markham, David Glover, Frank Norton, Martin Harley, Ken Loach, Barry Hines, Tony Garnett, Chris Menges, Roy Watts, John Cameron, William McCrow
• Director: Ken Loach
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Woodfall Film Productions, Kestrel Films Ltd., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie