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Dirty Pretty Things
Starring:
Chiwetel Ejiofor ,
Kriss Dosanjh ,
Israel Aduramo ,
Yemi Ajibade , and
Nizwar Karanj
Director:
Stephen Frears
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ASIN: B00018D3LE
Release Date: 2004-03-23 |
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The luminous Audrey Tautou (Amelie) stars in Dirty Pretty Things, a riveting thriller about an illegal immigrant in London named Okwe (Chiwetal Ejiofor, Amistad), a doctor in his homeland who now works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk clerk. When a hooker tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. He soon discovers a snare of desperation, poverty, and black-market body organs--and finds that his only friend, a Turkish hotel maid (Tautou), may be the next to be caught. Dirty Pretty Things, skillfully directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons, My Beautiful Laundrette), fuses taut suspense with an unsettling portrait of life among the British underclass of immigrant service workers. Thanks to the excellent cast and script, the movie makes its social points subtly, while the gripping story coils itself around you. --Bret Fetzer
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From Stephen Frears, the Oscar(R)-nominated director of THE GRIFTERS (Best Director, 1990) and DANGEROUS LIAISONS, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS stars Audrey Tautou (AMÉLIE) in a harrowing tale of struggle and survival for two immigrants who learn that everything is for sale in London's secret underworld! Part of an invisible working class, Nigerian exile Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Turkish chambermaid Senay (Tautou) toil at a west London hotel that is full of illegal activity. Then late one night Okwe makes a shocking discovery, which creates an impossible dilemma and tests the limits of all they know! Honored with numerous European film awards and nominations -- including wins at the London Critics Circle Film Awards and the Venice Film Festival -- you'll find this gritty urban thriller to be thoroughly engrossing and impossible to forget!
Customer Reviews:
interesting movie but ..........2007-07-24
... couldn't help but notice that none of the baddies in the movie is an english man - the factory owner who exploits tatou is an asian - indian or paksitani, the villian who trades in kidneys is spanish ...
c'mon the movie is set in london and are we to expect ...
recently there were reports in press as to how english immigration officials were sexually abusing women immigrants who wanted to stay back ...
Dirty Pretty Things.......2007-06-05
After falling in love with Amelie and (especially) He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, I was on a desperate hunt for more Audrey Tautou films to watch. Dirty Pretty Things is a movie about illegal immigrants and organ harvesting in London. Some great social commentary exists around the twisted knots of sub plots making this a pretty good film. However, roughly 20-minutes could have been chopped out (i.e. the hooker with the heart of gold type character who poorly provided comic relief) and this definitely made parts of the movie just drag. Warning: A good bit of rather graphic sexual violence directed at women.
Dirty Pretty Things..........2007-06-02
This movie was better than I thought it would be, and the acting was very good! Audrey Tautou makes the most of her role...four stars!
A European thriller with important social elements and plot twists galore.......2007-04-30
Dirty Pretty Things is a suspense thriller with both a love story angle and a healthy dose of social commentary about the plight of illegal immigrants in London. It's packaged with a sexy Audrey Tautou on the cover, but the title and cover belie the gritty, intense nature of this sublime European film. The central character, Okwe (Chjwetel Ejiofor), is an illegal immigrant from Nigeria working as a night porter in a London hotel. His love interest Saney (Audrey Tatou) is a Turkish immigrant seeking asylum in Great Britian and working illegally as a chambermaid and seamstress. Okwe discovers evidence of a murder in Suite 510 at the hotel, and despite the fact that his co-workers tell him to mind his own business and ignore any dirty things that happen in the pretty hotel, he starts to unravel a criminal web of black market transactions. Soon, he and Saney are waist-deep in the criminal underworld, unable to turn to law enforcement for fear of deportation.
This outstanding movie can be viewed as a gripping suspense thriller or as an important expose on the plight of immigrants, and the viewer will delight when justice is delivered to the evil people who wield all the power. Prepare to be captivated by a compelling storyline with a first-rate cast.
An engrossing human drama, stylish noir, social commentary and much more:.......2007-04-16
"Dirty Pretty Things" (2003), a film directed by Stephen Frears is not quite a thriller, romance or a drama, but it does manage to fit all three successfully.
An illegal immigrant in London (Chiwetel Ejiofor), working a day job as a cab driver and a hotel clerk in the Baltic Hotel at nights, discovers a human heart stuck in the bottom of a hotel room toilet one night and worries about what goes on behind the closed doors of his hotel. In the meantime, he develops a friendship with an immigrant woman from Turkey (Audrey Tatou ) who is also just trying to get by first as a maid in the hotel, then, as a seamstress in a sweatshop.
Acting by everybody, especially by two leads is wonderful. I am so glad to see Tatou in the part very different from her Amelie. The story is gripping; and we see London the way we have not seen it before and many of us did not even know that London existed.
The film manages to work on many levels - an engrossing human drama, stylish noir, social commentary, lives of immigrants, characters study - with the characters deep, human, and very real. There is no cheap pulling the strings, no manipulation. As a result -one of the best films of that year.
And that ending.... Fans of "Lost in Translation" - watch "Dirty Pretty Things", and then we'll talk about what the good ending is.
4.5/5
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Puffing on a Coffin Nail: Live at the Forum
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Release Date: 2007-02-13 |
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Great live performances from the first album.......2007-05-16
If you are a fan of everything the former Libertines does (DPT and Babyshambes), then you will definitely love this. Almost every song in this DVD comes from their first album FROM WATERLOO TO ANYWARE; you will get an entire live concert and some live versions. This band will be BIG and this is a must have as it records the beginning of what will be one of Britain's great bands of the 2000's.
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ASIN: B000EXDP64
Release Date: 2006-04-25 |
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Puffing on a Coffin Nail-Live at the Forum
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Dirty Pretty Things
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ASIN: B000INAWKW
Release Date: 2006-10-31 |
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The luminous Audrey Tautou (Amelie) stars in Dirty Pretty Things, a riveting thriller about an illegal immigrant in London named Okwe (Chiwetal Ejiofor, Amistad), a doctor in his homeland who now works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk clerk. When a hooker tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. He soon discovers a snare of desperation, poverty, and black-market body organs--and finds that his only friend, a Turkish hotel maid (Tautou), may be the next to be caught. Dirty Pretty Things, skillfully directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons, My Beautiful Laundrette), fuses taut suspense with an unsettling portrait of life among the British underclass of immigrant service workers. Thanks to the excellent cast and script, the movie makes its social points subtly, while the gripping story coils itself around you. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
interesting movie but ..........2007-07-24
... couldn't help but notice that none of the baddies in the movie is an english man - the factory owner who exploits tatou is an asian - indian or paksitani, the villian who trades in kidneys is spanish ...
c'mon the movie is set in london and are we to expect ...
recently there were reports in press as to how english immigration officials were sexually abusing women immigrants who wanted to stay back ...
Dirty Pretty Things.......2007-06-05
After falling in love with Amelie and (especially) He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, I was on a desperate hunt for more Audrey Tautou films to watch. Dirty Pretty Things is a movie about illegal immigrants and organ harvesting in London. Some great social commentary exists around the twisted knots of sub plots making this a pretty good film. However, roughly 20-minutes could have been chopped out (i.e. the hooker with the heart of gold type character who poorly provided comic relief) and this definitely made parts of the movie just drag. Warning: A good bit of rather graphic sexual violence directed at women.
Dirty Pretty Things..........2007-06-02
This movie was better than I thought it would be, and the acting was very good! Audrey Tautou makes the most of her role...four stars!
A European thriller with important social elements and plot twists galore.......2007-04-30
Dirty Pretty Things is a suspense thriller with both a love story angle and a healthy dose of social commentary about the plight of illegal immigrants in London. It's packaged with a sexy Audrey Tautou on the cover, but the title and cover belie the gritty, intense nature of this sublime European film. The central character, Okwe (Chjwetel Ejiofor), is an illegal immigrant from Nigeria working as a night porter in a London hotel. His love interest Saney (Audrey Tatou) is a Turkish immigrant seeking asylum in Great Britian and working illegally as a chambermaid and seamstress. Okwe discovers evidence of a murder in Suite 510 at the hotel, and despite the fact that his co-workers tell him to mind his own business and ignore any dirty things that happen in the pretty hotel, he starts to unravel a criminal web of black market transactions. Soon, he and Saney are waist-deep in the criminal underworld, unable to turn to law enforcement for fear of deportation.
This outstanding movie can be viewed as a gripping suspense thriller or as an important expose on the plight of immigrants, and the viewer will delight when justice is delivered to the evil people who wield all the power. Prepare to be captivated by a compelling storyline with a first-rate cast.
An engrossing human drama, stylish noir, social commentary and much more:.......2007-04-16
"Dirty Pretty Things" (2003), a film directed by Stephen Frears is not quite a thriller, romance or a drama, but it does manage to fit all three successfully.
An illegal immigrant in London (Chiwetel Ejiofor), working a day job as a cab driver and a hotel clerk in the Baltic Hotel at nights, discovers a human heart stuck in the bottom of a hotel room toilet one night and worries about what goes on behind the closed doors of his hotel. In the meantime, he develops a friendship with an immigrant woman from Turkey (Audrey Tatou ) who is also just trying to get by first as a maid in the hotel, then, as a seamstress in a sweatshop.
Acting by everybody, especially by two leads is wonderful. I am so glad to see Tatou in the part very different from her Amelie. The story is gripping; and we see London the way we have not seen it before and many of us did not even know that London existed.
The film manages to work on many levels - an engrossing human drama, stylish noir, social commentary, lives of immigrants, characters study - with the characters deep, human, and very real. There is no cheap pulling the strings, no manipulation. As a result -one of the best films of that year.
And that ending.... Fans of "Lost in Translation" - watch "Dirty Pretty Things", and then we'll talk about what the good ending is.
4.5/5
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