'The film is more optimistic than people consider': Why the poignant Kes is Britain's greatest coming-of-age story Alamy First released in November 1969, Ken Loach's social-realist tale of a boy who adopts a kestrel still resonates and has become a timeless classic of British cinema. They insisted that Kes was a film for everybody and that the "central image of …
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Indian movies and directors may be missing from this edition of Cannes, but Indian gods are very much in attendance. In a scene in Pedro Almodovar’s Pain And Glory, almost the entire Hindu pantheon — Krishna, Sai Baba, Santoshi Ma and Hanuman — are pasted on a wall while some psychotropic substances are being inhaled. In the film, Almodovar’s 21st …
