Beautiful People (film)
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| Directed by | Jasmin Dizdar |
| Produced by | Ben Gibson Roger Shannon Ben Woolford |
| Written by | Jasmin Dizdar |
| Starring |
Rosalind Ayres Julian Firth Charles Kay |
| Music by | Garry Bell Ghostland Jasmin Dizdar |
| Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
| Edited by | Justin Krish |
| Distributed by |
BFI Trimark Pictures Channel Four Films |
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107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Beautiful People is a 1999 satirical comedy written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar. The film won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival and is listed in The New York Times Guide to The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.Beautiful People is set in London during the time of the Bosnian War.
In London, during October 1993, England are playing the Netherlands in the World Cup qualifiers. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from former 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 an encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs Netherlands match.
The film was selected as an Un Certain Regard entry at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Roger Ebert gave the film 
(three stars out of four), and made several comparisons: Beautiful People "loops and doubles back among several stories and characters, like Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia"; "it is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like Catch-22, it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war."James Berardinelli gave it the same rating and made most of the same comparisons; according to Berardinelli, "Dizdar has accomplished what few filmmakers are capable of—taking a serious subject and crafting an effective comedy from it that is defined by rich characters, genuine laughs, and an unpredictable plot." He concluded:
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