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overthinking entertainment

Movie: Kes

[TRAILER] Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, for a time.

Starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes, Bernard Atha, Laurence Bould, Joey Kaye, Ted Carroll, Robert Naylor, Agnes Drumgoon, George Speed, Desmond Guthrie, Zoe Sunderland.

Directed by Ken Loach. Screenplay by Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett. Based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. Produced by Tony Garnett. Cinematography by Chris Menges. Edited by Roy Watts. Music by John Cameron.

100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes (with 33 reviews). It was ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten (British) Films.

Currently streaming in the US on Tubi and Pluto. JustWatch listing.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 14, 2024 at 3:31 PM

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When I tell you this might the saddest Ken Loach movie, I want you to sit with that a minute before you watch.

He literally also has a film in which a starving woman passes out while weeping and shoveling beans into her mouth barehanded in a food bank. This is sadder than that.

It's pretty beautiful though and an amazing film.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 3:32 PM

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Dude. The trailer. I mean, ostensibly these people are all acting but still.
posted by ginger.beef at 7:37 PM

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Absolutely amazing film. It's my favorite of the British kitchen sink dramas; it is also deeply mournful. I really need to watch more of Loach's work.
posted by Bryant at 8:32 AM

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Ken Loach's Star Wars.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 10:42 AM

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