AE FOND KISS (2004)

Cast

Plot

Casim is a second generation Pakistani living in Glasgow, and while he may have fully embraced the culture into which he was born, his parents still have certain expectations of him. Casim is due to marry his cousin, Jasmine; a wedding expected and condoned by his Muslim family. But their son has fallen in love with a white Glaswegian Catholic, Roisin, and as their relationship develops so the inevitability of their discovery looms. Ken Loach's film is a thoughtful and, as always, uncompromising observation of the cultural divides that exist within a nation that prides itself on its cultural diversity, but it is also a convincing and passionate love story at its core and all the more humane for that.