Beautiful People (1999)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Jasmin Dizdar

Writer:

Jasmin Dizdar (written by)

Release Date:

25 August 1999 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

A comic collision of chaos and coincidence

Plot:

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height...

Plot Keywords:

Soccer | Hospital | Heroin | Immigrant | Bosnia Herzegovina

Awards:

4 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Thomas Goodridge	...	Youth with Mobile Phone
Faruk Pruti	...	Croat
Tony Peters	...	Bus Driver
Dado Jehan	...	Serb
Rosalind Ayres	...	Nora Thornton
Julian Firth	...	Edward Thornton
Charles Kay	...	George Thornton
Charlotte Coleman	...	Portia Thornton
Edward Jewesbury	...	Joseph Thornton
Bobby Williams	...	Tim Mouldy
Joseph Williams	...	Tom Mouldy
Nicholas Farrell	...	Dr. Mouldy
Danny Nussbaum	...	Griffin Midge
Steve Sweeney	...	Jim
Jay Simpson	...	Bigsy

MPAA:

Rated R for drug use, language and some violent content.

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | France:-12 | Germany:12 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | New Zealand:R | Iceland:12

Company:

Arts Council of England

Quotes:

Pero Guzina: [thanking his dinner hosts in his broken English] Thank you for your hostility.

Movie Connections:

Features The Railway Children (1970)

Soundtrack:

Pity the Sadness

An Excellent and Very Different Movie

In contemporary London, five stories with refugees from former Yugoslavia are presented in a chaotic and mixed way, some of them with points of contact. The best and funniest story is about a drugged hooligan who travels to Rotterdam with two addicted friends to watch a soccer game between Netherlands x England. After the game, when England lost it, in the airport, he is so drugged in heroin that he sleeps inside a box of international aid to Bosnia. The box is dropped by parachute in the front of the war, and our `hero' wakes-up in the middle of a battle. He meets a young boy, who becomes blind, and helps people in an improvised hospital of the United Nations before coming back home. There is the story of a cinematographer who gets a kind of syndrome due to the horrors he witnessed in the war, specially the amputation of a leg without any resources. There is another story about a fight between a Croat and a Serbian, beginning in a bus and ending in the hospital in London. There is a story of a raped young woman who gets pregnant. Her husband wants that her English doctor makes an abortion. By the other hand, the doctor is full of personal problems with his wife. There is a romance between a refugee from former Yugoslavia and a daughter of a conservator English politician. The way the stories are presented looks like a documentary, or the news on television, and is very different. The movie does not present clichés and has lots of English black humor. I myself loved it. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): `Beautiful People'