Beauty in Trouble

Name: Beauty in Trouble
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: June 13, 2008
Rating: 75

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Menemsha Films | Release Date: June 13, 2008

Summary: Beauty in Trouble explores a young woman’s romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set against the back drop of the recent floods in Prague, Beauty in Trouble is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising and paradox ending.Beauty in Trouble explores a young woman’s romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set against the back drop of the recent floods in Prague, Beauty in Trouble is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising and paradox ending. (Menemsha Films)… Expand

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Writer Petr Jarchovsky and director Jan Hrebejk collaborated on the formidable "Up and Down" (2004), and this 2006 feature, which takes its title from a Robert Graves poem, is equally impressive for its mastery, intelligence, and ambition in juggling intricate plot strands and memorable characters. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Recent history once again intrudes on the present-day lives of working Czechs in the masterful multicharacter drama Beauty in Trouble. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

What director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský are talking about is the Czech Republic, ravaged for decades by communism and then left to fend for itself in a world to which it can scarcely adjust. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky ("Divided We Fall," "Up and Down") have crafted another well-observed tale, one with no heroes or villains, just people trying to make something of the situations in which they find themselves. And, with a nicely ambiguous ending, it's drama enough. Read full review

Steven Rea

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. Read full review

Leighton Klein

This being a Czech film, drama, comedy, history, and social commentary are served up in equal proportion. Read full review

Michelle Orange

Unfortunately, Hrebejk settles for unsatisfying allusions to the Czech experience that never break through the melodrama to make his case with any conviction. Read full review

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LawrenceW.

Feb 28, 2009

Acting and music are really terrific, but story line seemed contrived and the ending unsatisfying.

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