Kes
A slight, bullied Barnsley boy, written off by his school and bound for the pit like his brutal half-brother, takes a kestrel from a nest and trains it, and the discipline of falconry gives him the one competence anyone ever asks him to explain. Loach shot with local non-professionals in their own accents, and the classroom football match under a preening games master is among the most quoted scenes in British cinema. It adapts Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), and fixed the template for Loach's half-century of social realism.
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- adapts ↑ A Kestrel for a Knave
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