Comedy and chemistry make for an intoxicating mix in this acerbic, knowing character study from Czech director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky.
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10/18/08
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.
Theatrical Release:Jun 13, 2008 Limited
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
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Reviews for Beauty in Trouble
Top CriticPetr 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 poignant and well-acted drama about the trouble some people have accepting the kindness and good fortune which comes their way.
06/12/08
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
Beauty in Trouble uses the changing moods of water as both metaphor and frame for the infinite adaptability of human emotions.
06/13/08
Top Critic[A] masterful multicharacter drama.
07/07/06
Top CriticWhile 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
Top CriticThis is the kind of film that achieves one simple but difficult thing: It pleases you.
12/09/08
Top CriticA complex look at the power and changeability of intimate relationships.
09/23/06
So, can anyone tell me what the Czech word for magnolia is?
06/08/08
Beauty in Trouble uses another kind of catastrophe to reveal the true nature of its central characters.
03/12/09
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
A vivid, nuanced and sweetly forgiving study in moral ambiguity.
06/19/08
Top CriticBeauty in Trouble is the sort of film that sits with you days after viewing
02/02/08
A stunning feature film that at base asks the question, "What should a woman choose: an unpredictable life with a sexual dynamo, or a stable relationships with a much older man?"
06/04/08
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
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
This being a Czech film, drama, comedy, history, and social commentary are served up in equal proportion.
07/18/08
Top CriticBeauty in Trouble is a fairly conventional story about the conflicting pulls of sexual dependency and financial security, but the movie is lifted out of the ordinary by Schmitzer’s turn as the grandfather from hell.
06/11/08
While life just got a little more complicated with the introduction of the market economy into formerly socialist Eastern Europe and China too, so did their movies. A surface meditation on materialism and its impact on human emotions. Do the math.
05/13/08
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