Director Ken Rouge’s masterpiece, Chris Menges, who later won the award for "Killing Fields" (1984), was responsible for the photographic mirroring. The story was originally written by Barry Hines' "A Kestrel For a Knave", the protagonist is a A thin young man from the lower classes of Yorkshire in north-central England. He was bullied at home and at school, and his image was low. Instead, domesticating a wild kestrel made him regain his self-esteem... It is inevitable to be sad. (5/06) The
seventh best British film of the twentieth century voted by the British Film Institute (BFI), and was included in the list of the best films in the history of "Sight and Sound" magazine. http://mcyiwenzhi.blogspot.com/2009/03/kes-1969.html
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