2002 · thriller · drama · british
Dirty Pretty Things
Directed by Stephen Frears1h 37m2002
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
Our read: Dirty Pretty Things (2002) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama · british entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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