AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Beth Robinson First of all, the story line was non existing. I didn't see the point of the film until 9/11 occurred. All I witnessed were bad representations of stereotypes, bad acting and you could say offensive characters. We'll start with that fact that only one person could act and that was Renu Setna who played Khalid (the father). He portrayed a good example of a traditional Muslim father and for that I have to give him credit. Although I have read that Archie Panjabi is a wonderful actress I did not see this the main point being her accent was horrendous. Not even to mention Steve Jackson's (John) diabolic performance - he can not act to save his life.Also I have to say that the fact the scene of this poor elderly woman not realising the cameras helping the Muslim lady being discriminated was left in to draw the audience - shows how bad the rest of the screen writing was.

Felix Grebenstein The movie „Yasmin" by Kenny Glenaan tackles the conflict between traditional Muslim life and western culture that disturbs Yasmin and her family.Yasmin leads a double life: She is a modern woman working for a social service, going to the bar with her colleague and best friend John, driving a red cabrio, smoking and drinking occasionally. But as soon as she comes to her neighborhood she changes clothes and covers her hair in a black veil. At home her husband Faisal from Pakistan, the so-called "import" she has been married to by her parents, is talking to his goat, the only friend he has he has in this new world. Yasmin's father Khalid, a traditional but rather open-minded Muslim, cannot accept her wish for a divorce.After 9/11 things are getting even more complicated. Yasmin's brother Nasir who has been dealing drugs, finds his own way of compensating his guilt and hate. He ends his bad western habits and does what he believes a good Muslim should do. Finally unpredicted events force Yasmin to end her double life and to decide between her traditional roots and the friendship with John.It is easy to relate to the character of Yasmin and to understand how she is feeling. Even though her father strikes with his traditional views at first you feel more and more sympathy for him as he turns out to be honest and tolerant. He abhors his son for saying 9/11 was "stylish". The development of Nasir is a very shocking and still realistic one.The film is a very dramatic portray at an uneasy reality with prejudice, crime, and love. It tells the story of a woman who is torn between her Muslim roots and a modern life.

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.

Lucky_Pinon "Yasmin", a film by Kenny Glenaan reports about the life of a young woman, living and born in Great Britain, but having an immigrant background, before and after 9/11.Yasmin, a young woman, with parents from Pakistan, lives a life divided into two halves. On the one hand she tries to fit the expectations of her father, for example living in a bogus marriage with her cousin. On the other hand she attempts to stand on her own feet, having a real job and English friends. This fragile lifestyle is destroyed by the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11. Yasmin's already hard life is getting even harder and she tries to handle the situation with everything she has got and not to give in. But not only Yasmin's life is turned upside down by the events of 9/11. The movie shows how everybody suffers from this event. John, Yasmin's colleague, is no longer able to decide what's right or wrong, is afraid of his friend, like lots of other, non-Muslim people were at this time. Nasir, Yasmin's brother, is brain-washed by terrorist activists. Faysal, Yasmin's husband, is suspected by the police to be a terrorist. In my opinion, it is quite hard to identify with any of these characters, when you have never made any experiences comparable to theirs. On the other hand, it has not been hard at all to sympathize with all of the characters. One of the messages of the film, is to think from different perspectives. The film says a lot about tolerance and understanding each other. For me, it has had the effect, that I think you really need to slip into another person's skin if you truly want to understand this person. All in all the film is close to reality and that is what makes it so touching. I really had to think a lot about what I have seen and I think it can change people's minds. I truly recommend this film. Not only because of the touching effect it has but also because of the understanding you get from it.