The Reel Story Reel Story Archive Beautiful People Life is usually absurd, and sometimes wonderful T he premise of this film is that everybody is both beautiful and ugly, and that at least to some extent whether you are perceived as a hero or a goat depends on circumstances. Directed by former Yugoslavian Jasmin Dizdar, this tells the story of several Bosnian immigrants in London, and the other lives they touch. In A Film, but allows them to be just folks with problems, trying to get from here to there. They play out their lives against a background of cultural and political conflict. Because they have common problems, we become engaged in their lives.
Life is usually absurd, and sometimes wonderful.
The acting here is uniformly excellent. The cast includes Rosalind Ayres, Linda Bassett, Nicholas Farrell, Charlotte Coleman, Danny Nussbaum and Charles Kay.