Kes has long been regarded as one of Yorkshire’s foremost films. Now a new book explores what it means to the county more than 50 years on. Steve Teale reports.
A film made more than 50 years in Barnsley still resonates as strongly now as it did then. Kes – based on Barry Hines’ book A Kestrel for a Knave – was made in 1969 and quickly became renowned for director Ken Loach’s compassion and depiction of working class Barnsley. Now a new book published by the British Film Institute is celebrating the lasting legacy of Kes and its impact on both British and world cinema.
Professor Dave Forrest, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Sheffield, said: “Kes endures because it tells a universal story about education, potential, and resistance, with a powerfully authentic sense of specificity - this is a specificity that comes from its location in Barnsley, and from the non-professional actors - many of them children - who drew on their own lives and experiences to give the film its realism.
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