Ae Fond Kiss Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 104 mins
- Year produced:
- 2004
- Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Atta Yaqub
- Eva Birthistle
- Ahmad Riaz
If there’s a contentious political issue out there, then director Ken Loach has probably tackled in one of his films - often using non-professional actors to avoid conventional movie moods. At their best, his films do feel like snatches of real life put on screen, and there’s plenty of that in this excellent account of the relationship between a man from a Pakistani family and a woman from the Irish Catholic community in Glasgow. Far from being just another Romeo and Juliet-type story, this a warm love story placed in the context of Britain’s very complex racial and religious tensions.
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Fascinating facts
The title refers to the Robert Burns poem, "Ae Fond Kiss".
Ae Fond Kiss was filmed entirely in and around Pollokshields, south of Glasgow.