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04/23/09
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... [More]
Starring: Ana Geislerová, Jana Brejchova, Emília Vásáryová, Josef Abrham
Director: Jan Hrebejk
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.
04/17/09
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.
04/10/09
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.
04/04/09
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.
04/03/09
The filmmakers seem more interested in running the camera over Marcela's body than really figuring out who she is.
03/20/09
Beauty in Trouble uses another kind of catastrophe to reveal the true nature of its central characters.
03/12/09
Petr Jarchovsý's script is elliptical, building the story through a succession of small scenes whose import is not always immediately obvious.
02/09/09
[A] well-observed tale, one with no heroes or villains, just people trying to make something of the situations in which they find themselves.
12/19/08
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.
12/18/08
Impressive for its mastery, intelligence, and ambition in juggling intricate plot strands and memorable characters.
12/09/08
This is the kind of film that achieves one simple but difficult thing: It pleases you.
12/09/08
Top CriticComedy and chemistry make for an intoxicating mix in this acerbic, knowing character study from Czech director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky.
10/18/08
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.
10/10/08
Deeply affecting and darkly amusing.
08/01/08
Top CriticIt's enthralling, human drama of the kind that's become sort of an old school pleasure.
08/01/08
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.
08/01/08
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.
07/27/08
This being a Czech film, drama, comedy, history, and social commentary are served up in equal proportion.
07/18/08
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.
07/17/08
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