Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Wordiezett So much average

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

LeonVincent Yasmin.Yasmin Husseini is a young woman of Pakistani background living in a small Scottish town together with her arranged husband Faysal. Yasmin has to live in 2 worlds in order to meet her father's and her own expectations; she is torn between her 2 roles of a western and a traditional Muslim woman and when the incident of 9/11 takes place, she seems to crash and finally has to make a decision… The director manages very well to depict the situation of British thinking women growing up in a whole Muslim surrounding. Especially the problems Yasmin has to cope with after 9/11 are very lucidly brought to screen. Also the audience gets very close to the protagonist and is able to really feel with Yasmin. As a gist, the movie is worth seeing.

cherry888 With "Yasmin" Kenny Glenaan has created a very moving film, picturing the growing Islamophobia in England after 9/11.He has established the plot around the young Pakistani woman Yasmin who can hardly manage to combine her western lifestyle with the expectations of her father to be a pious Muslim housewife. Nonetheless she is well-educated and a social worker whereas at home she does the household and does not really have a say. After 9/11 all her colleagues, including her caring friend John, turn away from her and seem to connect Yasmin with Muslim terrorists, although she does not see herself as a traditional Muslim, anyway. Finally her family seems to fall apart, too, after the police have raided their houses."Yasmin", as a politically motivated film, is a very realistic respond to the general reactions to the incident of 9/11. In an interview Glenaan said he wanted to give people, especially Muslima, a voice, to what I think "Yasmin" is an impressing solution.

wibke-07 The movie "Yasmin" is about the life of a Muslim woman living in Britain before and after 9/11 and her personal conflict between her western life at work and her traditional life at home. After the attacks in New York Yasmin's life changes completely and she has to handle how these attacks influence her two lives. Beside Yasmin Husseini, the main characters are her family and her colleague John Bailey. Her family are her father Khalid, who wants her be a pious Muslim, her younger brother Nasir, who think 9/11 "had style" and who develops a lot after his family got problems with the police, and Faisel her husband of an arranged marriage, who is suspected of contacts with a terror organization. John seems to be Yasmin's secrete love but he actually does not know about her life at home because she hides it. I think the director's intention was to tell us that we that we have to overcome prejudices. He wants us to think about a person and not to form an opinion on things others have done. He wants the audience to start thinking not to judge over people without knowing them and say that they are enemies because they could be victims as well. I think "Yasmin" is a good movie because it shows the effects of attacks from another angle. Not from a western-world person's but from the Muslim's, not only have to handle the fears everyone has got, but also the way they are treated because they have the same religion as the terrorists. The movie is breathtaking and makes you think in a different way from before.

olli-trixi The film "Yasmin" by Kenny Glenaan depicts the effects September 11, 2001 has had on the Muslim community in England. Yasmin, a young woman, and her hometown in North England act as an example of the growing tensions between Muslims and Non-Muslims. Yasmin's place between the two worlds is endangered by the bogus marriage with her cousin Faysal, who is not able to cope with his new home, and by the distrust she experiences at work and even in her free time. In the end, she has to find her own way and learn to accept her own roots.Yasmin herself is an emancipated and rather modern woman who seems to be full of the joys of life. Her two worlds are represented by her father, the custodian of the local mosque, who is a very traditional man although he allows her a lot of freedom, and by her friend John, an Englishman, who does not know about Yasmin's other life. The latter is also the one I can identify with most because he is abruptly pulled into a conflict of religions he really only knows from television and so he reacts with rejection to protect himself. Yasmin's own brother Nasir also leads two lives. As a good Muslim he helps his father at the mosque, but drugs in his spare time he deals. The roles of the victim and the culprit as we often see them are reversed in this film, and Kenny Glenaan shows that the Muslim world, as incomprehensible and unfamiliar it might be to others, has had to suffer in its own way since 9/11. Around this complex storyline Glenaan creates an atmosphere which, on the one hand, is very tense and sometimes even arouses a feeling of hopelessness when Yasmin is with her family, and, on the other hand, is full of prejudices, narrow-mindedness and mistrust whenever she enters the "other world". When Yasmin's two worlds clash, you can easily imagine the lack of prospects she experiences and the struggle to maintain her own identity. "Yasmin" is an intelligent film with a complex storyline portraying the Muslim community in England after September 11, 2001. It presents a different point of view to the conflict of cultures and makes you think about your own position in the multicultural world.