As much as I am willing to trust my favourite critics when they see Ken Loach as a great contemporary director, I have to admit that I had to give up on "Kes" because it was really too boring. I cannot see anything social, any big issue in it. Obviously as I did not finish, I might have just as well been not patient enough. This film has a really slow start. Or, as I tend to think that your movie reading depends on your mental state, I imagine that I was not that interested by the potential issues considered in "Kes" at the time of the viewing. It is not a bad film however, for the little I saw. You do not stop watching it shouting at the screen because it is horrendous, and I think I am likely to try it again one day. So don't get scared by my review, make your own opinion.
Review of Kes
Kes
(1969)
Pretty boring. Or me not seeing what I should see in it.
22 September 2010
Warning: Spoilers