Roger Sloman

Beautiful People -- Jasmin Dizdar's BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is a lively, darkly comic vision of Bosnian refugees making a new life in London and the Londoners whose lives they change.

Reds -- The film, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, journalist and activist, whose love affair with writer/feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) unfolds against the explosive backdrop of the Russian Revolution.

Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end to their affair. John Reed's subsequent trip to Russia, and his involvement with the Communist party, rekindles their relationship. When Louise arrives in Petrograd, she finds herself swept up in the euphoria of the Revolution. Reed, however, eventually becomes disillusioned with Communism when he sees his words and intentions augmented and controlled by the growing Soviet propaganda machine.

"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. 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 encounters.