Blu-ray Review: Kes

Criterion | 1969 | 111 mins. | NR Based on the Barry Hines novel “A Kestrel for a Knave,” Kes is an unsentimental, provocative, and touching portrait of poverty, marginalization and despair. In the poor, working class coal mining town of Barnsley, Billy Casper (David Bradley), is facing a bleak future. An outcast at school, […]