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Stephen Frears says `Dirty Pretty Things' is a different kind of noir.
Byline: Steven Rea
"It's a different kind of London from the one that you're used to seeing," says Stephen Frears of "Dirty Pretty Things," the director's crafty take on the new, polyglot British capital _ and the lengths to which people go to survive there.
A sleek romantic thriller _ starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as a Nigerian minicab driver/hotel clerk, "Amelie" imp Audrey Tautou as a Turkish chambermaid, and Sergi Lopez as the shifty expatriate hotel manager _ "Dirty Pretty Things" nabbed a raft of awards in its homeland last year. Hailed as 2002's best film by more than a few Brit critics, Frears' 16th feature has also hit big with audiences stateside.
Frears, who divides his time between the English countryside and London, explores a netherworld of asylum-seekers, of desperate and unsavory commerce, of sweatshops and black marketeers. But though immigration is a hot-button issue in Britain, Frears says his film isn't ...
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