Beautiful People
Jasmin Dizdar's debut feature takes place in London on October 13, 1993. England is to play against Holland in a critical World Cup qualifier. The Bosnian war is at its height, Sebrenica is besieged, and the UN is preparing relief airdrops. Serbian Dado Jehan and Croatian Faruk Pruti meet on a London bus. Recognizing each other as fellow refugees from the same village in Bosnia, they try to beat each other up. The subsequent crazy chase through the streets of central London sets the scene for a highly charged dark comedy. Beautiful People draws a portrait of the multicultural life of London where lives of British families are inadvertently linked with the lives of the refugees.
Director: Jasmin Dizdar
Starring: Charlotte Coleman, Charles Kay, Rosalind Ayres, Roger Sloman, Heather Tobias
There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.
Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.
Fierce, funny and vividly moving.
The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.
Best Original Screenplay
British Independent Film Awards (1999)
Jasmin Dizdar
Cannes Film Festival (1999)
Jasmin Dizdar
Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema (1999)
Best Feature
Gijón International Film Festival (1999)
Jasmin Dizdar
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1999)
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