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CREW
Director Lance Daly
Writer Lance Daly
Release Date: 2010-07-16 - Limited Release
Distributor(s): Oscilloscope Laboratories
Film Genre(s): Drama, Coming-of-Age
CAST
Kelly O'Neill, Shane Curry, Paul Roe, Neili Conro
SYNOPSIS
Christmas Eve in a seedy district on the outskirts of Dublin. Pre-teens Dylan and Kylie are neighbours, each struggling with the unbearable pressures of a dysfunctional family, with no chance of escape. Dylan is beaten by his unemployed father, and Kylie has to endure abuse by her uncle, which her mother refuses to acknowledge. So when yet another row with his father erupts, the young boy decides to run away, with Kylie right behind him. They set off for the capital, looking for Dylan’s brother, who had made his own escape two years before. During the day they wander around the friendly, generous streets of Dublin, trying to forget their troubles and to take courage as they meet up with people who can help them in their quest. But when night falls, the city changes face, and the children are plunged into a dark and murky world full of bogeymen. Come morning, their dreams of a better life have dissolved; Dylan and Kylie set off for home. Yet the kids, swearing eternal friendship with a hint of nascent teen romance, have at least gained something from this rite of passage.
PLOT
A pair of young runaways find both beauty and danger in the big city in an evocative drama from writer and director Lance Daly. Dylan (Shane Curry) is an eleven-ear-old boy growing up with an alcoholic father who often uses his children as punching bags. One day, Dylan decides he can take no more, and he makes plans to run away from home. His close friend Kylie ($Kelly O'Neill), a girl of ten living next door, is also the product of an abusive family, and when she learns that Dylan is leaving home, she steals a wad of cash from her family and joins him. Making their way out of town on a barge driven by a sympathetic sailor with a yen for music, Dylan and Kylie end up in Dublin just as the Christmas season is going into full swing. The two friends explore the city, which seems magical even at its shabbiest. But while Dublin seems like a paradise of lights and magic by day, they learn that the city's sinister side comes into focus after the sun goes down. Kisses also stars Stephen Rea and Paul Roe.
A pair of young runaways find both beauty and danger in the big city in an evocative drama from writer and director Lance Daly. Dylan (Shane Curry) is an 11-year-old boy growing up with an alcoholic father who often uses his children as punching bags. One day, Dylan decides he can take no more, and he makes plans to run away from home. His close friend Kylie (Kelly O'Neill), a girl of ten living next door, is also the product of an abusive family, and when she learns that Dylan is leaving home, she steals a wad of cash from her family and joins him. Making their way out of town on a barge driven by a sympathetic sailor with a yen for music, Dylan and Kylie end up in Dublin just as the Christmas season is going into full swing. The two friends explore the city, which seems magical even at its shabbiest. But while Dublin seems like a paradise of lights and magic by day, they learn that the city's sinister side comes into focus after the sun goes down. Kisses also stars Stephen Rea and Paul Roe.
STORY
"Kisses" is no "400 Blows" and Lance Daly is no François Truffaut, but a viewer can see why its two small-fry, non-professional performers were chosen after getting the roles that over a thousand Dublin kids had allegedly tried for. Kelly O'Neill and Shane Curry as Kylie and Dylan respectively were picked for their independence; the former for pulling out a comfortable chair during casting instead of listening to instructions to sit in the wooden seats, the latter for refusing to make tea for Kelly while the other candidates followed instructions.
The principal thing that "Kisses" have going for it is the acting of the two young leads who play (I'm guessing) high-school freshmen (if they go to school at all). Otherwise "Kisses" is a short story that could fit into your flat-screen TV, a minor work particularly if judged against the aforementioned giants.
Though the term "inner city" refers to ghettoes in the U.S., the term broadly interpreted could mean the rows of shanty houses, dumps called kips in Irish slang, somewhere outside central Dublin where next-door neighbors Kylie and Dylan live. When they're not acting the maggot with one another or with family or outside kids, they're curious about each other. Kylie, who looks about 14 years old, asks Dylan what he wants to be because "I'll not marry you if you become a nothing and you're going to keep living in the kip!" Their parents are bowsers, the types who have lots of kids so they can enjoy some variety slapping them around. After Dylan's dad punches the boy's mom, Dylan socks the old man in turn, then takes off running with Kylie into central Dublin, known in Irish slang as An Lár. "Kisses" becomes a road-and-buddy movie, the interest hopefully coming not only from the relationship of this young couple but from the oddball people they meet in the city. They run into an Australian singer (played by an uncredited Stephen Rea) who, like several others that they run into, is familiar with the songs of Bob Dylan, which dominate the soundtrack.
There are light moments and darker ones: the film starts off in black-and-white to signify the rut that informs the lives of people who live in the kip, then turns to modified color to portray the lively scene in town. As Dylan looks for his brother, who had disappeared two years back, he and Kylie run into weirdos and nice guys, with Kylie, the kid with the stronger personality, refusing to go home.
As a fictional work, "Kisses" embraces the lives of people living in a desolate suburban dump, doing a better job of giving us sociological insight than a doc*mentary would. A climactic moment, as it were, comes as the two friends engage in a long, French kiss, a prelude one might think to a life together with the six or eight kids that they'll add to the kip and slap around. Agus mar sin Tarlaíonn gach glúin na botúin de na cinn roimhe seo.
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