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	Reel Criticism - Audrey Tautou in Dirty Pretty Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is a film that is rich in character and complex in construction.
		The few other flaws with "Dirty Pretty Things" also involve small items within the screenplay which, in the moment are easily overlooked, but should one ever latch onto them, they’re very hard to let go.
		Overall, "Dirty Pretty Things" is an excellent film, and a wonderful dramatic antidote for those who are feeling "dumbed down" by what Hollywood has had to offer of late.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_dirtyprettythings.html (814 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Dirty Pretty Things
		Dirty Pretty Things tells the tale of two immigrants in the UK, one a Nigerian man named Okwe (pronounced "oak-way," played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Love Actually), the other a Muslim Turkish woman named Senay (pronounced "shin-eye," played by Audrey Tautou, Amélie).
		Dirty Pretty Things doesn't force us to pity these people—in fact, I'd say it's quite the opposite, because Okwe accepts his fate; it's its effect on others, such as Senay and the other immigrants endangered by the organ harvesting, that troubles him.
		Dirty Pretty Things is definitely worth a rental; as a portrait of two people living in a world most of us will never see, it is quite stunning.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/dirtyprettythings.php (1175 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The London of Dirty Pretty Things is filled to capacity with people who have been forced out of their native lands and have arrived in London with hopes and dreams of a better life.
		That said, Dirty Pretty Things is hardly a bastion of social realism; rather, it is a thriller that happens to take place in a world that, for all intents and purposes, does not exist.
		Dirty Pretty Things does not seem brutal enough in its condemnation of the powers that be who force the immigrants to hide in the shadows, nor does it make any valid comment on the scale of exploitation that these people face on a daily basis.
	www.highangle.co.uk /reviews/dirtypretty.html (459 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Dirty Pretty Things (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Audrey Tatou shatters the public perception of her in "Dirty Pretty Things," shifting into the role of a trodden-on Turkish maid.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is a hybrid atmospheric thriller and gritty drama, written by Steven Knight and directed by the brilliant Stephen Frears.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is billed as a thriller, and although the film is a drama about disillusionment more than anything else, it plays by the rules of a thriller.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001WTUTO?v=glance (2664 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things
		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.
		Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears, captures the experiences of immigrants in London and the life they live.
		These are the things that the title speaks of, the dirty things that we try to dress up and make pretty, but for those who actually experience them, they are still disgusting and unwanted.
	www.dvdvan.com /info/B00018D3LE/Dirty_Pretty_Things.html (1557 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the film Dirty Pretty Things.
		For the rock band of the same name, see Dirty Pretty Things (band).
		Dirty Pretty Things (2002) is a movie by Stephen Frears, a gritty urban drama about two illegal immigrants in London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirty_Pretty_Things (366 words)

	Dirty pretty things/Stephen Frears - In this world/Michael Winterbottom - de Filmkrant net-versie van juni 2003, nr 245 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dirty pretty things van Stephen Frears toont een Londense hel, waar immigranten hun organen niet zeker zijn.
		Hun Dirty pretty things is gebouwd rond de gedachte dat er een ijzeren gordijn loopt tussen een bovenwereld, waar goedgeklede mensen een fijn leven leiden, en een onzichtbare onderwereld, die wordt bevolkt door kansloze, armoedige illegalen.
		In Dirty pretty things is Okwe zo'n nobele geest dat hij aan Jezus doet denken.
	www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk245/dirty.html (1652 words)

	Modamag.com \| Dirty Pretty Things - Movie Review
		“Dirty” is reminiscent of 1970s thrillers in that it’s assured and confident, and not preoccupied with staying ahead of the audience.
		With “Dirty,” and more volatile roles in “He Loves Me, He Love Me Not,” and “L’ Auberge Espagnole,” Tautou is challenging her audience when I can imagine it would take little effort for her to sell out and exploit her strawberry shortcake disposition for all the coin in the world.
		An understated, yet gripping change of pace thriller, “Dirty Pretty Things” might not have you guessing much, but your fingernails will still be chewed to the bone.
	www.modamag.com /dirtyprettythings.htm (592 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Stephen Frears - 2003 - Dirty Pretty Things Movies Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Okwe is the center of Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, a human drama that often looks like it could turn into a thriller, but it doesn't.
		Dirty Pretty Things is one of the finest films I have seen this year.
		Dirty Pretty Things is a rare movie that remembers the characters do not exist to do what's best for our sake, but what's best for theirs.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005246 (959 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things
		Still, it's not a great thing to do, and will be especially glaring if Tautou guests in a stinker.
		Dirty Pretty Things takes place in London, but can just as take place in New York, Los Angeles, or any other city with a large immigrant population.
		Still, Dirty Pretty Things belongs to Ejiofor, whose performance is the emotional core of the film.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/dirty_pretty_things.html (552 words)

	DVD review of Dirty Pretty Things - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Dirty Pretty Things" may not satisfy the tastes of all serious adult audiences, true, and it is mainly an exercise in characterization and style over substance or reason; but while it's unfolding, it usually works and keeps one under its spell.
		Things, implies Frears, are not always as they appear, and beneath the hotel's elegant facade is an underbelly of evil and corruption, from relatively mild acts of prostitution to more seriously offensive dealings in human organs.
		They lift "Dirty Pretty Things" from the level of the ordinary mystery adventure to a special realm of things compellingly authentic and humane.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/dirtyprettythings/12067/2082 (1340 words)

	DVD Review: Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
		Dirty Pretty Things is one of those movies that can enthrall you even if you hate foreign accents and them damn foreigners that have them accents.
		Dirty Pretty Things is a simple movie, but enthralling and interesting nonetheless.
		Dirty Pretty Things is one of those films you should bust out for those drunks that don't like foreign films.
	www.lightsoutfilms.com /dvd_dirtyprettythings.html (462 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dirty Pretty Things at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		DIRTY PRETTY THINGS deals with the problem of aging affluent populations, which are in need of organ transplants.
		As Okewe, the Nigerian hero of DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, puts it (a bit pompously, despite the blunt truth of his words): "We are the ones you do not see.
		In the London of DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Africans, Balkan Muslims, Asians, East and West Indians must fear the idiosyncratic judgments of the Immigration Agents.
	www.epinions.com /content_115818335876 (1583 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things (2003): Reviews
		By its third act, Okwe has found his solution and Dirty Pretty Things comes across as both clever but a little pat, another British drama about the misfits who pool their resources to defy the oppressive system, though it does not precisely leave a warm glow.
		Things will not be a big concession-stand movie because the floating heart is our introduction to a cottage industry we hope won't catch on.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" reminded me of John Sayles' "The Brother from Another Planet", from the standpoint of a fl actor, who doesn't portray a criminal as the lead, is directed by a white male in an English-speaking film.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dirtyprettythings (1422 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Dirty Pretty Things
		Audrey Tautou is used mainly to capitalize on the international acclaim she received for her performance in the hit film, "Amelie." She is a part of the action, not the initiator that Okwe is, and helps to move the film to its pretty, but melancholy ending, without embellishing her character.
		"Pretty Dirty Things" is a competently done film that feels more like an exercise for helmer Frears than one of his more notable oeuvres.
		The London of "Dirty Pretty Things" is one of cramped spaces and slick nighttime streets, daylight reserved for ethnic markets and a final scene of escape.
	www.reelingreviews.com /dirtyprettythings.htm (1126 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dirty Pretty Things returns to contemporary ethnic London, this time multi-ethnic--the world of illegal immigrants.
		The focused screenplay by Steve Knight has an unapologetic agenda, laying out the ugliness of a system in which desperate refugees, fleeing from social, economic, or political oppression, are cast in a state of limbo, with no rights, regulated by a hostile bureaucracy and exploited by sweat shop employers, sexual predators, and shady operators.
		Dirty Pretty Things makes an eloquent case for the plight of illegals, a message delivered without preaching, but couched in the form of first-class movie entertainment.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies7/DirtyPrettyThings.htm (569 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things is at times a very engaging film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dirty Pretty Things is at times a very engaging film.
		Dirty Pretty Things is a very cowardly and safe tackling of the immigration issue.
		Tatou’s character a Turkish refugee named Senay is conflicted and not sure of the answers to the moral questions posed to her.
	www.independentfilmquarterly.com /reviews/dirty.htm (661 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - Dirty Pretty Things
		Dirty Pretty Things is a watchable little urban thriller, based on an admirably ambitious but deeply flawed script by debutant screenwriter Steven Knight.
		When Okwe finds a human heart blocking a room toilet late one night, his discovers the hotel is being used by Sneaky as a base for the trafficking of human organs — impoverished immigrants are offered an expertly forged UK passport in return for a kidney.
		Clocking in at a lean 90-odd minutes, Dirty Pretty Things offers a brisk tour of a London most visitors and residents are barely aware exists.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/dirtyprettythings.html (654 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Actually, Okwe already knows things are shady at the Baltic—a resident prostitute (Sophie Okonedo) is his friend, after all—but the telltale heart is the first sign he's seen of bloodshed.
		A good and decent man—who was a medical doctor in his old life—Okwe quietly tries to find out what's behind the heart, but runs up against hotel manager Juan (Sergi Lopez), aka "Sneaky," who has the power to put the authorities on his case.
		Like Laundrette, Dirty Pretty Things is set in a section of London teeming with recent immigrants, legal and otherwise, who rely on gritty entrepreneurial skills to survive.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=137623 (706 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tagline: Some things are too dangerous to keep secret.
		`Dirty Pretty Things', Stephen Frears' latest film played last year in Europe, but the North American opportunity to see it only came yesterday.
		`Dirty Pretty Things', brilliantly written by Steve Knight, maintains its unpredictability right up to its surprise ending.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0301199 (1073 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things (2003) - Reviews - Moovees.com
		Dirty Pretty Things takes place amid the dark, sometimes ugly, and mostly depressing world of London’s illegal immigrant population.
		Things go from bad to worse for Okwe and the Turkish Girl when immigration officers come knocking on her door.
		In fact, while there are tough moments in Dirty Pretty Things (some being thematic and others being downright icky to look at) Frears finds ways to inject humor that is both laugh out loud funny at times and also very sweet and gentle.
	www.moovees.com /review/rayj/dirty-pretty-things.html (614 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - LONDON AFTER DARK: An interview with Dirty Pretty Things director Stephen Frears.
		Dirty Pretty Things is a more than worthy addition to his impressive resume -- an intelligent horror/thriller made by a consummate professional.
		Miramax released Dirty Pretty Things on July 18, 2003 in New York and Los Angeles, and it will be playing in more cities throughout the country in the following weeks.
		At the very least a cleverly executed thriller, the film also brings to light a handful of socially important issues…even though Frears, himself, would probably be the last person to agree with that perception.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Interviews/frears.html (1065 words)

	Dirty Pretty Things
		“Dirty Pretty Things” is a romantic, political thriller that generates some wicked laughs toward the end of the story.
		Foreshadowing is fun, when you know something other than the agreed to plan is going to occur and you figure it out shortly before all the characters.
		Here, bad things happen to good people, yet by the time the movie is over, some of the bad guys have gotten their due and Okwe and Senay are hopefully headed for a better future.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /20035q/id1974.htm (973 words)

	The London Underground - Stephen Frears probes the immigrant class in Dirty Pretty Things. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The London Underground - Stephen Frears probes the immigrant class in Dirty Pretty Things.
		Early in Stephen Frears' perversely buoyant melodrama Dirty Pretty Things (Miramax), a Nigerian taxi driver and illegal immigrant named Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) asks his boss for a better route, and in response the man ushers him furtively into the back room, pulls down his trousers, and presents his penis.
		Dirty Pretty Things doesn't quite cut to the bone, but it gets as far as a couple of vital organs.
	slate.msn.com /id/2085813 (876 words)

	An Interview With Audrey Tautou
		Dirty Pretty Things is set in contemporary London, in and around a hotel maintained by immigrants from all corners of Europe and Africa.
		Equal parts murder mystery, political thriller and love story, Dirty Pretty Things is the perfect antidote for this summer's plague of unoriginal sequels and comic-book movies.
		The most difficult thing for me was not knowing if I was saying something right, or not, because I knew so little English to begin with.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/tautou.htm (1519 words)

	Like Pulling Teeth (Or Stealing Kidneys): Stephen Frears On "Dirty Pretty Things"
		This gruesome trade underpins the plot of "Dirty Pretty Things," Stephen Frears' latest foray into London's underbelly, arrived nearly 20 years after his 1985 "My Beautiful Laundrette," the film that launched him (and Daniel Day-Lewis).
		"Dirty" is primarily set in a posh London hotel, all gleaming brass, plush carpets, discreet arrivals and checkouts -- and room service of a sort you never imagined.
		Striking a delicate balance between social commitment and melodrama, "Dirty" is a noir thriller for filmgoers with high IQs, serving up a scathing version of multiculti London, where the immigrant community is foully exploited for the service economy.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030718frears.html (2028 words)

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