Kisses
NB! Screening on Friday 18th Sep at 2pm has moved from Kinopalatsi 6 -> 7
Ultimately, the fi lm’s fanciful elements – the appearance of a Bob Dylan lookalike (an uncredited Stephen Rea), a chase through the streets with Dylan hanging on to a car bumper – are less interesting than the child’s eye view of the hardship, poverty and violence that is a familiar part of their lives. Daly’s skill in working with the child actors is to illuminate their still-intact innocence in the face of the forces out to corrupt it – in the city and in their homes.
– MIKE GOODRIDGE, SCREEN
In less extreme ways, ”Kisses” recalls the inseparable nextdoor-neighbor adolescents in Kirsten Sheridan’s ”Disco Pigs”, particularly in the kids’ intense, growing awareness of one another, though Daly displays little interest in Sheridan’s preoccupation with incestuous tragedy or her magic realism. Even in its striking, deliberately artificial use of color, the frame reflecting every emotional state from dingy gray to vivid neon, pic remains strictly within the parameters of normal childhood perception.
– RONNIE SCHEIB, VARIETY
Duration: 72 min
Dialogue: English
