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	DVD review of Dirty Pretty Things - DVD Town
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is a good film and a recommendable film, but it is hardly an extraordinary film.
		"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.
		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

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Dirty Pretty Things
		"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.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" will offer an invaluable service if it causes its audience to start looking into the faces of those it takes for granted, although it devolves into a simplistic race-against-time, damsel-in-distress tale.
	www.reelingreviews.com /dirtyprettythings.htm

	Reel Criticism - Audrey Tautou in Dirty Pretty Things
		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.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is a film that is rich in character and complex in construction.
		If you’re looking for a way to spend some time at the movies that will actually stimulate a few brain cells while you’re being entertained, "Dirty Pretty Things" is just what you’re looking for.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_dirtyprettythings.html

	Dirty Pretty Things
		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.
		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.
	www.highangle.co.uk /reviews/dirtypretty.html

	... welcome to the three imaginary girls ...
		Pretty and preposterous, this Mexican flick aims for a mix of Cuarónian whimsy and Almodóvarian outrageousness… and ultimately falls short.
		The film she inhabits isn't a perfect one either, but that may just be the reason I have more pure affection for this gem than for any other offering at SIFF 2003.
		It begins with an old man's rhythmic, constant hukkle (hiccup) and ends 75 minutes later with a dark wedding song -- the closest thing to dialogue in the film.
	www.threeimaginarygirls.com /siffreviews.asp

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Dirty Pretty Things [2002]
		Dirty Pretty Things is a delicate film, but powerful on the heart, it will entertain you as well as make you think about the society we live in nowadays.
		Directed by Stephen Frears, 'Dirty Pretty Things' is both a thriller and modern morality tale set in the underbelly of London- the world of illegal immigrants, sweatshops and prostitution.
		It is an atmospheric film with fantastic central performances from both Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou, (famously known for her role in Amelie).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AE7CD

	Dirty Pretty Things (2003) - Reviews - Moovees.com
		Being that there is a major suspense element to Dirty Pretty Things, giving away much more about the plot would lessen the impact on the viewer, but much can be said about other areas of the film.
		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.
	www.moovees.com /review/rayj/dirty-pretty-things.html

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dirty Pretty Things
		She was nominated for a British Independent Film award for Dirty Pretty Things, and with this being the season of awards, Okonedo has learned for the first time that she also garnered an MTV Movie Award nomination for best on-screen kiss with Jim Carrey in the Ace...
		HOT ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Love Actually," "Dirty Pretty Things") is the first black actor to have a lead role in a Woody Allen movie ("Melinda and Melinda," opening in Buffalo next Friday).
		Audrey Toutou and Chiwetel Ejiofor in "Dirty Pretty Things".
	movies.surfwax.com /files/Dirty_Pretty_Things_Movie.html

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

	Amazon.com: Video: Dirty Pretty Things (2004)
		"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.
		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.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is a hybrid atmospheric thriller and gritty drama, written by Steven Knight and directed by the brilliant Stephen Frears.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001WTUTO?v=glance

	Dirty Pretty Things
		“Dirty Pretty Things” is a romantic, political thriller that generates some wicked laughs toward the end of the story.
		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.
		Compensation here is that the film is entertaining, the relationship between a black man and a white woman is fresh, and those of us that might feel less than privileged in the United States get a wake-up call as to how good we have it, when all things are considered.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /20035q/id1974.htm

	Dirty Pretty Things
		might prove too subtle for most, and things do take a while to get moving, but ultimately the film soars thanks to the lead performances and the absolute dearth of convention and cliche in the storyline.
	clcole.people.wm.edu /dpt.html

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Chiwetel Ejiofor
		So the truth is, there are things about both mediums that are challenging and things about both mediums that are very exciting, which is why I would hope to be able to continue to do both for as long as I can really.
		That's one of the things that I found most incredible - to be able to create this environment which was heightened, but wasn't unfamiliar.
		You feel in a way you could create, you could orchestrate if you had all the time in the world, something that's pretty close to what this character should be and all its facets.
	www.themoviechicks.com /summer2003/mctdirtypretty.html

	MMI Movie Review: Dirty Pretty Things
		There is a thriller lurking somewhere in Dirty Pretty Things, but fortunately Frears and screenwriter Steven Knight are in no hurry to define the stakes and wring out every drop of peril.
		Dirty Pretty Things has a lot of good old-fashioned melodrama at its core.
		With an engaging ensemble cast of international characters that never delve into caricature, Dirty Pretty Things is fun without being especially funny.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/dirtyprettythin-cm-115066632.html

	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

	Colorado State Collegian - The excellent "Dirty Pretty Things" comes to Fort Collins
		Films like "Dirty Pretty Things" tend to have a very short run at our area theatres, so be sure to keep an eye out for them so that you do not miss out on excellent movies such as this one.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" opened in select cities over the summer, and luckily for us in Fort Collins, the film has finally come to ours.
		"Dirty Pretty Things" is clever, exciting, touching and even funny at times.
	www.collegian.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/25/3f724c56bd44a

	Dirty Pretty Things is at times a very engaging film
		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

	village voice > film > Dirty Pretty Things; Johnny English by Jessica Winter
		And so is Dirty Pretty Things, which tunnels beneath a bustling city's surface to find the personae non gratae who keep its motor clean.
		Senay (Audrey Tautou), a Turkish asylum applicant who lends Okwe her couch, is sorely tempted by Juan's organs-for-passports program; abused by her employers, hounded by immigration officers—whom Frears casts as a pair of swarthy, raccoon-eyed gangsters manqués—and nursing a crush on emotionally unavailable Okwe, she hopes to join a cousin in New York City.
		Steven Knight's script evolves unabashedly into a romantic thriller, but the Hollywood-formula framework is built on a decidedly un-Hollywood foundation in terms of subject matter, worldview, and plausible casting (incidentally, its sole star made her name in another Miramax joint that washed Paris's face of graffiti and other color).
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0329/winter.php

	Dirty Pretty Things
		Still, Dirty Pretty Things belongs to Ejiofor, whose performance is the emotional core of the film.
		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, it's not a great thing to do, and will be especially glaring if Tautou guests in a stinker.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/dirty_pretty_things.html

	eye - Pretty Things goes to hell - 07.31.03
		Dirty Pretty Things' self-consciously urban feel -- reminiscent of Frears' '80s efforts, My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid -- and the edgy shooting style of cinematographer Chris Menges are a poor fit with the plot contrivances and unsubtle dialogue that mar Knight's script.
		Though Stephen Frears'Dirty Pretty Things is set in modern-day London, this is not the city as seen by tourists or even most residents.
		However worthy their intentions, the filmmakers risk trivializing the problems of Britain's illegal aliens in order to serve up something juicy enough to intrigue viewers who don't give a toss for the wretched of the earth.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.31.03/film/onscreen.html

	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).
		iW: Did you have misgivings about the grisly organ trade theme of "Dirty Pretty Things"?
		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

	Dirty Pretty Things Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Dirty Pretty Things Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		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.
		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.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=137623

	Dirty Pretty Things (2003): Reviews
		"Dirty Pretty Things" reminded me of John Sayles' "The Brother from Another Planet", from the standpoint of a black actor, who doesn't portray a criminal as the lead, is directed by a white male in an English-speaking film.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dirtyprettythings

	Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
		`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.
		Much buzz, fortunately all merited, preceded it: an amazing Nigerian actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, already acclaimed for his stage performances, makes his big-screen debut, while Audrey Tatou, the impossibly wide-eyed kook from 2001's `Amelie', tackles her first English-language movie role.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0301199

	An Interview With Stephen Frears
		Dirty Pretty Things, written by Stephen Knight, he describes as “a little more than half there” when he read the first script.
		Rather than viewing himself as a late starter, he positions his switch to the big screen as arriving at a time when he was mature enough to understand how to make films and connect with that audience.
		When asked at the AFI screening how he gets actors to do “things,” he replies directly: “whatever it takes.” Sometimes it’s patience, other times a joke or something obvious.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/frears.html

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Dirty Pretty Things
		Dirty Pretty Things is an amazingly gritty and compelling English film directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette) from a screenplay by Steven Knight.
		To experience this is to be rocked to one’s foundations." Dirty Pretty Things is the kind of movie that only comes along once in a while.
		Things get even more complicated when Senay, who is being hounded by immigration officers, seems willing to risk everything in order to get a ticket to New York.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_6209.html

	ToxicUniverse.com - Stephen Frears - 2003 - Dirty Pretty Things Movies Review
		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.
		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.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005246

	dirtyprettythings
		This gives Sneaky a chance to ham it up as he explains to the innocent refugee what the hotel business is all about, which also explains the film's title: "Strangers come to hotels to do dirty things.
		"Dirty" centers around a young illegal Nigerian, Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor-English born Nigerian), who was a doctor in his homeland but had to flee for political reasons and is wanted back home for trumped up charges of murder.
		By the time the end credits rolled down, I felt every scenario from the melodramatic romance to the dramatic plight of the illegals was contrived and the real meaning of dislocation and survival was sapped by the weak execution derived from the actors and the clumsiness dictated by the script.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/dirtyprettythings.htm

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Dirty Pretty Things
		Dirty Pretty Things is, at its core, a quest for home, for inclusion, and the crazed, half-mad desperation of Okwe and Senay is rooted in the realization that life affords them only three options: perpetual subjugation, death, or escape.
		When Okwe infiltrates a local hospital with the help of a friendly crematorium porter, the fake ID he’s given looks nothing like him, to which the porter replies: “Black is black.” According to the film, most of the city views those like Okwe as interchangeable cattle, primarily useful as spare parts for the capitalist machine.
		Things conclude in an unrealistically neat fashion – why would someone who fled a country under the threat of death think they could suddenly return to it?
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/57734be228b733b088256d290063a675?OpenDocument (815 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dirty Pretty Things [2002]: DVD
		Dirty Pretty Things is a delicate film, but powerful on the heart, it will entertain you as well as make you think about the society we live in nowadays.
		Directed by Stephen Frears, 'Dirty Pretty Things' is both a thriller and modern morality tale set in the underbelly of London - the world of illegal immigrants, sweatshops and prostitution.
		Dirty Pretty Things was at once a pleasant surprise and a slight disappointment.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AE7CD (1238 words)

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