Beautiful Beings

Name: Beautiful Beings
Genre: Drama
Released: January 13, 2023
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Anita Briem, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Blær Hinriksson, Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir

2023

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Altered Innocence | Release Date: January 13, 2023 | Unrated

Starring: Anita Briem, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Blær Hinriksson, Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir, Kristín Ísold Jóhannesdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, Theodór Pálsson, Viktor Benóný Benediktsson

Summary: Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions.Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound intuition guide him and his friends back to a safer path, or will they dive irrevocably into further violence?… Expand

Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 123 min

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Wendy Ide

Jan 9, 2023

The impressive second feature from Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson confronts the feral cruelty and violence of children on the cusp of adulthood, but finds also a tenderness amid the sharp edges and posturing. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 10, 2023

Beautiful Beings, titled “Berdreymi” in Icelandic, is superb at capturing the universal problem of idle, unsupervised boys making bad choices, creating “Lord of the Flies” pecking orders and lashing out in violence because nobody’s taught them otherwise. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Jan 9, 2023

If in terms of narrative there’s not much new here, there is a freshness and an inhabited vibrancy that makes this painful coming of age story feel exactly its own. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jan 9, 2023

Beautiful Beings is shot with real style, with very good performances, but the cliched and consequence-free violence is a flaw. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Jan 11, 2023

The best scenes in this movie show that Guðmundsson has a talent for make-believe, drug trips and fantasy scenarios, and if there were more such set pieces in Beautiful Beings, then it might have been something more distinctive rather than the latest in a very long line of films about young people left on their own. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Marya E. Gates

Jan 13, 2023

In his bleak film, Guðmundsson combines the kitchen sink drama of growing up in a cycle of violence and/or poverty and the magical realism of teenage fever dreams, with mixed results. Read full review

The Film Stage Christian Gallichio

Jan 19, 2023

While compelling in individual scenes, especially as the boys navigate their increased anger at the world, Beautiful Beings ultimately whiplashes between too many ideas and subplots to create a coherent thematic through line. Read full review

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