Kes

November 09, 2020 00:03:26
Kes
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Kes

Nov 09 2020 | 00:03:26

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Show Notes

A boy in an English mining town trains a falcon in his spare time, in Ken Loach’s 1970 working class drama. Kes was a film, produced in 1970, that brought director Ken Loach to the world’s attention, marking a new beginning in the British realist tradition. It’s about a boy in a Yorkshire mining town named Billy, played by David Bradley, who is neglected by his overworked mother and mistreated by an older brother (played by Freddie Fletcher) who is already embittered by his dead-end life as a miner. Billy dreads going to the mines, but nothing in his environment…

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