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.

briefkasten_asil Yasmin.Yasmin Husseini, a young Muslim woman from Pakistan, lives with her father Khalid, her brother Nazir and her "husband" Faysal in a working-class area in England. At home, she is the Muslim daughter. On the way to work, she is changing clothes, getting into her red car and is off to the Western world. Life works. But with 9/11, things change and Yasmin has to make a decision… The director's intention with the film "Yasmin" was to show people what was really going on after 9/11 in and against Muslims in England and how suspicion and racism, so called Islamophobia, has increased. The movie is about the right to adapting to a different culture without forgetting about where you come from. The impressive thing about the movie is the cruel thing about it at the same time: It is very close to reality. Experiences Muslims made after 9/11 are united in the story of Yasmin and her family. But what makes the film that realistic are not these references only, it is the actor's performances as well as their purity. That is why the audience comes close to the protagonists and their destiny. All in all, "Yasmin" is a film that makes you thinking. Worth seeing!

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.

deepblue2 The movie "Yasmin" deals with the story of a young Muslim woman balancing two worlds. On the one hand, she tries to fulfill her rather conservative father's expectations to act like a good Muslim wife, but on the other hand, she wants to get closer to John, an English-man, who works with her. This works well until September the 11th 2001 when she is confronted with the increasing tension between the western and the Islamic culture: she is insulted at work for being a Muslim, while having problems at home for acting too westernized. The main conflict at home is that Yasmin rejects her husband Faysal, she married on her father's wish, to enable Faysal to get the English citizenship. Faysal himself is completely unable to handle the new environment since he has never lived in a city before. Yasmins brother Nasir, is caught by an organisation preaching hatred to fight for Islam. While Yasmin has to handle Faysal and Nasir, she tries to deal with the growing distance between her and John and her colleagues offending her at work. John is a very friendly and open-minded young man who tries to help Yasmin out of trouble, but, without any success since she doesn't tell him about her private situation,. The film's message is as well its biggest strength. "Yasmin" shows on how many levels a single event can impact on people's lives and how different actions cause certain happenings. Although e.g. the viewer is probably not able to identify with Nasir, one sees in which situation he has been to decide like he does and that things cannot be judged as easily as the media often suggest. The only weakness of "Yasmin" is the predictability of the storyline but since this film is not meant to stun the audience with unexpected turns, that is not a problem. I recommend this movie to everyone who is ready to see how banal and brutal at the same time a nice little life can fall apart.