| Beautiful Beings | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson |
| Screenplay: | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson |
| Producer: | Anton Máni Svansson |
| Cinematography: | Sturla Brandth Grøvlen |
| Editing: | Andri Steinn Guðjónsson |
| Music: | Kristian Eidnes Andersen |
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| Distributors: | --> |
| Runtime: | 123 minutes |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Language: | Icelandic |
| Gross: | $178,839[1] |
Beautiful Beings (is|'''Berdreymi''') is a 2022 Icelandic coming-of-age 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]
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]