I rewatched Ae Fond Kiss recently for the first time since it came out back in 2004. I was very young then and didn’t have much life experience. There is something really special about repeating certain experiences, like rewatching movies or rereading books from a long time ago. Now that I have gone through life and seen more, a lot of things in the film really resonate with me, and the story just sits with me. You realize how much your worldview and tastes have evolved. I really love the Scottish accents in the movie now, which is something I just didn’t connect with back then. The film tells a love story between Casim, a second-generation Pakistani Muslim young man from a deeply conservative family, and Roisin, an Irish Catholic immigrant and schoolteacher in Glasgow, and what the society imposes on their lives through both strict Catholic rules and Muslim traditions.
(Translated from Farsi) Image: Official Benelux theatrical poster for Ae Fond Kiss (2004), distributed by Cinéart.
