Dirty Pretty Things

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1. #001

   This was French actress Audrey Tautou's first English-language role. It is all the more impressive because she speaks English without a French accent.

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2. #002

   The temporary home of the Turkish immigrant Şenay also features a poster of the controversial Turkish director Yılmaz Güney. Güney produced many works of "courageous realism" devoted to the plight of ordinary, working-class people in Turkey. A director who clashed with typical state-approved films and with the Turkish government of the time, he eventually fled the country and later lost his citizenship.

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3. #003

   Damien O'Donnell was initially attached to direct, but after problems with Harvey Weinstein he decided to step down. He directed Heartlands (2002) instead.

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4. #004

   It was the first film from Celador, the company behind the TV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998). Steven Knight, one of the creators of the popular series, also wrote the screenplay for Dirty Pretty Things.

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5. #005

   Chiwetel Ejiofor and Benedict Wong would later appear in The Martian (2015) and Doctor Strange (2016).

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6. #006

   Okwe ensures his patient's safety by asking Ivan to call an ambulance, knowing it will trigger a police investigation.

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7. #007

   The old man Shinti in Juan's office explains to Okwe where "M'aidez" (French for "Help me") and the "Mayday" distress code (its English phonetic equivalent) come from.

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8. #008

   Dirty Pretty Things is a band that took its name from this film.

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9. #009

   It is one of eight films in the 2012 2-DVD set "British Cinema Collections: 8 Acclaimed Films". The other films are: Disc 1: Love Among the Ruins (1975), The Inheritance (1997), Anna Karenina (1948) and St. Ives (1998). Disc 2: The School for Seduction (2004), Rogue Trader (1999) and Rowing with the Wind (1988).

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10. #010

    Ejiofor is a British actor of Nigerian descent playing a Nigerian living in London. Tautou is a white French actress playing a Turkish immigrant.

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11. #011

    The film's poster shows a naked Tautou playing a very modest young Turkish lady. There is no reason for her to willingly show her bare shoulders.

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