| DIRTY
PRETTY THINGS
With Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi Lopez
Directed by Stephen Frears
Illegal aliens and refugees are a low-key
part of many countries, performing jobs the born citizens wouldn't normally want
to. It is West London. Okwe is a Nigerian exile (a doctor by profession) driving
taxis and working at a hotel - the few hours he can get some sleep, it is on the
couch of a Turkish immigrant, Senay, who works in the same hotel as a chambermaid.
As if he doesn't have enough problems, Okwe gets roped into the problems of others.
But, when he finds a human heart in one of the seedy hotel's toilets, he becomes
a part of dark underground dealings. Frears succeeds in accurately replicating
this hidden world and the parts of London you don't see in brochures, leaving
both a bitter taste and a sense of triumph with the viewer.
5 / C
- PB
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