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Making a movie is tough enough without having to teach your actors to speak English.
But when director Stephen Frears set out to create the shadowed world of immigrant
asylum seekers in London for his urban thriller
Dirty Pretty Things
,
he thought the language barrier might actually help. Frears who manages to
unite the gritty realism of his indie breakthrough
My Beautiful Laundrette
with the color and rhythm of his Hollywood hit
High Fidelity
pulled
together a group of acclaimed European actors, all of whom speak different...