This kaleidescopic film embraces a number of strands – a distraught doctor (Nicholas Farrell) who's just been left by his wife and two rather obnoxious children who semi-adopts a Bosnian couple and their unwanted baby; another doctor (Charlotte Coleman) who's the daughter of a Tory politician who meets a Bosnian refugee and accident victim (Erin Dzandzanovic) and falls in love. And then there are the soccer hooligans, one of them (Danny Nussbaum) the son of a soulless marriage finds himself mistakenly on a UN airdrop into Bosnia after England loses against Holland... where he meets up with a BBC correspondent (Gilbert Martin), who back home is going mad with all that he's witnessed... you can see what I mean about the kaleidescope and the surreal...
There's an exhilarating confusion to Beautiful People – it's almost too much to handle, it's also hard to work out just what Jasmin Didzar is trying to say. There's a marvellous nurse (Linda Bassett) in the hospital where everyone seems to end up sooner or later who's into healing and maybe Didzar is attempting that too. But seeping through is, for me, a deep pessimism, reinforced by one of the final scenes... but the journey counterpoints humour and bleakness, destruction and healing, tragedy and redemption. It's a film of enormous interest that is actually a bit bewildering.
