1999 Cannes Film Festival

Official Selection

1999 Toronto Film Festival

The U.K. hit is coming soon to a theatre near you!

"BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE" is a comic collision of chaos and coincidence! Auteur Jasmin Dizdar constructs an absurd world with colorful, contradictory and moving inhabitants whose lives haphazardly, and often humorously, intertwine.

Soccer fanatic Griffin Midge, bowing to peer pressure from his hooligan pals, repeatedly disappoints his parents. Freethinking Portia Thornton sparks a relationship with a penniless refugee, much to the chagrin of her established political family. Dr. Mouldy, whose own home life is falling apart, nevertheless manages to give meaning to the lives of a young couple determined to reject their newborn child. And BBC correspondent Jerry Higgins, deeply damaged from one too many war assignments, returns home to his wife and child with a new obsession, amputation.

In the midst of modern London birth, death, isolation, prejudice and heroism as well as the social and political realities of the outside world touch them all through the most bizarre yet meaningful fluke encounters.

Starring Charlotte Coleman from "Four Weddings and a Funeral" fame, "BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE" marks the feature film debut of Bosnian writer-director Jasmin Dizdar and was produced by Ben Woolford.

The film also stars an ensemble cast comprised of accomplished British actors, including Charles Kay ("Henry V," "Amadeus"), Rosalind Ayres ("Titanic," "I, Claudius"), Roger Sloman ("Notting Hill"), Danny Nussbaum ("Twenty-Four Seven"), Gilbert Martin ("Rob Roy") and Nicholas Farrell ("Chariots of Fire," "Plunkett & Macleane"), as well as people who had never before been in front of the camera. Walentine Giorgiewa, who plays the woman with the unwanted pregnancy, works in a Wimpy bar, the British equivalent of McDonalds. And Edin Dzandzanovic, another non-actor, was discovered for the part of the refugee from the former Yugoslavia. This delicate pairing of seasoned professionals with the raw, earthy quality of amateurs helped texture Dizdar's stunning and emotionally charged portrait of multiculturalism. The soundtrack will be available on Chapter III Records.