More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.
Beautiful People
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United Kingdom · 1999
Rated R · 1h 47m
Director Jasmin Dizdar
Starring Charlotte Coleman, Charles Kay, Rosalind Ayres, Julian Firth
Genre War, Comedy, Drama
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In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the World Cup preliminaries. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounters with the refugees.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
Portland Oregonian by Diana Abu-Jaber
If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed.
Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.
It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Equal parts soap drama and ham-fisted morality tale.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Fierce, funny and vividly moving.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
Often grim, but never nihilistic: Even at its darkest, Dizdar gives the movie an optimistic bounce. The movie is often shockingly funny, too.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war.
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