Friday, May 21, 2004
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE(1999)
Today's movie; NYTimes1000Best; Jasmin Dizdar writes and directs a potpourri of stories that intertwine and coalesce into a wonderful construction. It seems every generation of Brit immigré has his or her integration story (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE comes to mind) and this is the one about the Bosnians, Croats, Serbs and 'former Yugoslavians'.
It is fast paced; heart stopping, at times; funny; very emotional and almost perfectly tuned to the theme of how helping others is redemptive and exponentially good for us. In this case, the 'marriage' between all kinds of English Brits and the brand new non-English Brits is joyous and complete; difficult in the process, but well worth it in the long run. And so on.
Words fail. We laughed and cried and were a bit horrified as the reality of the war scenes. All members of the cast and the story are indeed, in the end, beautiful people. This is a 5 out of Netflix 5.
