Beautiful Beings

Beautiful Beings (Icelandic: Berdreymi) is a 2022 Icelandic coming-of-age[2] 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.

[9] 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.