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Beauty in Trouble (2008)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:30
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A complex, affecting multi-character drama, Beauty in Trouble also works as social history and as a tale of familial trials and tribulations.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: In this Czech dramedy from Jan Hrebejk (DIVIDED WE FALL), a woman with a sex addiction has to choose between her husband and an attractive older man. BEAUTY IN TROUBLE is inspired by the poem of... In this Czech dramedy from Jan Hrebejk (DIVIDED WE FALL), a woman with a sex addiction has to choose between her husband and an attractive older man. BEAUTY IN TROUBLE is inspired by the poem of the same name by Robert Graves. [More]
Starring: Ana Geislerová, Jana Brejchova, Emília Vásáryová, Josef Abrham
Starring: Ana Geislerová, Jana Brejchova, Emília Vásáryová, Josef Abrham, Roman Luknár, Jirí Schmitzer, Jan Hrusínský, Jiri Machacek
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Screenwriter: Petr Jarchovsky
Story: Petr Jarchovsky, Jan Hrebejk
Producer: Ondrej Trojan
Composer: Ales Brezina
Studio: Menemsha
Reviews for Beauty in Trouble
The movie begins with a flood that threatens Prague literally; it ends with a flood of emotions that threaten to undermine a potentially happy relationship.
All the characters in Petr Jarchovsky’s screenplay are drawn in shades of gray. The result isn’t so much a morality play as an amorality play.
Excellent ensemble dramedy, which avoids mawkishness while keeping its characters complex and treating even the least likable of them with a welcome degree of empathy.
While this seems like familiar territory, in the hands of director Jan Hrebejk and his longtime screenwriting partner, Petr Jarchovský, it's an engrossing, layered story of the ill-fitting choices and compromises everyone makes.
The filmmakers seem more interested in running the camera over Marcela's body than really figuring out who she is.
Beauty in Trouble uses another kind of catastrophe to reveal the true nature of its central characters.
Petr Jarchovsý's script is elliptical, building the story through a succession of small scenes whose import is not always immediately obvious.
[A] well-observed tale, one with no heroes or villains, just people trying to make something of the situations in which they find themselves.
For a class-conscious farce that’s at least serious enough to borrow its title from Robert Graves, it’s impressively unaffected and utterly watchable.
Impressive for its mastery, intelligence, and ambition in juggling intricate plot strands and memorable characters.
This is the kind of film that achieves one simple but difficult thing: It pleases you.
Comedy and chemistry make for an intoxicating mix in this acerbic, knowing character study from Czech director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky.
Characters burst out laughing in the middle of sadness or decide to have sex in the middle of a fight, and somehow, it all makes sense.
It's enthralling, human drama of the kind that's become sort of an old school pleasure.
Featuring an earthy performance of strength, intelligence and vulnerability by Ana Geislerova, Hrebejk’s film generates powerful interest and empathy, thanks to the plight of its central character.
A love story that holds out happiness as a carrot dangled but never obtained. Too busy, but still lush with the loving work of director Jan Hrebejk.
This being a Czech film, drama, comedy, history, and social commentary are served up in equal proportion.
Beauty in Trouble offers a meditation on the legacies of communism and the lure of capitalism, but also on the human need for love, connection and family.
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