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title: "Dirty Pretty Things"
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# Dirty Pretty Things

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Dirty Pretty Things

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## Customer Reviews

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    Before "12 Years a Slave"
  

*by C***C on Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2012*

This is an example of a very good movie that was not promoted properly.  This look at the underbelly of modern London is fascinating.  In "Dirty Pretty Things" the viewer is taken beneath the usual staid and proper face of the city to its dirty tenements and nasty underworld.  And we're not invited into a lower-class colorful Cockney world.Instead, we are shown into a world teeming with immigrants, legal and illegal, from all over the world, trying to survive in a brutal world without mercy for the defenseless. It is a world filled with sweatshops you would expect to see in a third world country, prostitutes, and predators of every stripe.The legal immigrant is Senay, a Turkish Muslim played by the lovely Audrey Tautou.  She displays the wide range of her acting talent in a role quite different fron the whimsical pixie she portayed in "Amelie".  She is a housekeeper in the aptly named Baltic Hotel.Her counterpart is Okwe, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, a former doctor who is now a taxi driver and night desk clerk at the same hotel where Senay works and is allowed to sleep on her couch when she is not there. I don't know where they found Chitwetel Ejiofor,  but he has star potential. He actually steals this movie in my opinion, even with an outstanding performance by Tautou.The two of them are thrown together by happenstance. Each is preyed upon by the type of vultures that haunt a large city's underbelly.  Senay is sexually exploited by a sweatshop owner. Okwe is exploited by Sneaky Juan the kind of underworld denizen always working an angle at some vulnerable immigrant's expense.  He co-opts Okwe into using his medical skill for an outrageously immoral scheme in exchange for fake passports for Okwe and Senay. After their experience in the London underworld these two immigrants want to emigrate.The satisfying irony of how Okwe obtains the passports from Sneaky Juan, and then turns the tables on him, is worth the price of admission itself. It involves a very clever plot twist. The movie has a bittersweet ending but that is hardly a negative for this gem. Very nicely done and well worth seeing. With wider distribution this could have been a foreign film winner.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great, Gritty and Candid
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2013*

I love Audrey Tautou and this sounded like an intriguing and suspenseful movie.  It was all that, but so much more.  It's the story of immigrants and how people take advantage of them.  Audrey Tautou and Chiwetel Ejiofor play the main characters, doing whatever they have to to get by.  In their world you have to sell some of your own soul to exist.  The hotel where both of them have jobs (one of several) there is an illegal human organ trade going on.  Human trafficking in several forms goes on and you wonder what you would do if you were in those same circumstances.  The main male character, who is so upstanding, yet even he succumbs at times in order to survive, doing things like borrowing customers shoes at the hotel, etc.  Other immigrants sell their organs to obtain money and a new passport and new identity.  Everything is for sale.  But it also shows a tight community where the immigrants look out for each other while they hope for something more. The main male character played by Chiwetel Ejiofor is a man of honor, constantly torn between what he must do to survive.  But in his little illegal world people know they can count of him as he is a doctor from Nigeria, and works hard and grapples with his scruples.In the midst of all of it is a sweet love story.  Audrey Tautou is wonderful in this role and the story between the two main characters is love in a hard world.Very good movie.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Slightly disappointing but still impressive
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2004*

Dirty Pretty Things was at once a pleasant surprise and a slight disappointment. It stands head and shoulders above the wreckage of most recent Britflicks, but it still never quite reaches the heights. Part of the problem is that the background is the story, leaving us with an at times slight narrative and a very predictable final twist that seems very much like one of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Very Much as We Expected (the moment Chiwetel Ejiofor stops Sergi Lopez's hands from shaking you know exactly what's coming).That said, it's still a worthwhile trip. Unlike most British films, and London ones in particular, it actually uses the city as a character - in this case the hidden city. We see virtually no ordinary British citizens. Instead the film is inhabited by the illegal immigrants who do the dirty jobs that no-one else wants, the lead character a Nigerian doctor who works double-shifts as taxi driver and hotel porter and rents a couch in Turkish maid Audrey Tatou's couch on a timeshare basis. This milieu is superbly captured, and you get a sense of a world not so much hidden as ignored. Frears direction too is back to the power and drive of his early work after his recent flabby American entries, although he still can't resist caricaturing the Immigration officials - rather than the bored, disinterested and impersonal reality he's opted for cheap comic book villains that diminishes every scene they appear in. Similarly, he doesn't always keep a tight enough rein on some of the supporting performances, Sophie Okenedo in particular: she can be a much better actress, but here she's allowed to veer too much to stereotype and has a couple of awkward moments. Lopez too falls back on some of his overfamiliar mannerisms, although Ejiofor is quite superb in the lead, and his easygoing scenes with Benedict Wong's mortuary waste disposal technician are minor highlights.Nonetheless, with most British cinema so awful these days, this is definitely worth catching: a very good film even if it could have been even better.The DVD transfer is fine but the extras are negligible - a brief featurette and a commentary with lots of dead air from Stephen Frears.

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