2022 Icelandic film
Beautiful Beings (Icelandic: Berdreymi) is a 2022 Icelandic coming-of-age[2] drama film written and directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson.[2][3][4][5] Set in the suburbs of Reykjavík during the 2000s, the film focuses on a group of teenage boys and the violence that surrounds them.[6]
On 30 September 2022, the film was announced as Iceland's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[7]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of 22 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.5/10.[8] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[9]
In his review on Los Angeles Times, Robert Abele said that "the pacing is sometimes shaggy, and the boys’ motivations are occasionally mysterious, but Guðmundsson's young actors are magnetic in a physical, haunted way".[10] At The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw rated it 3/5 of its grade saying that "Beautiful Beings is shot with real style, with very good performances, but the cliched and consequence-free violence is a flaw."[2]
Awards
List of Accolades
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Film Festival
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Award
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Recipient(s)
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Result
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2021 Biografilm Festival
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Premio della Critica Italiana SNCCI
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Beautiful Beings
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Won[11]
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References
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