Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I initially thought 'Yasmin' was going to be just another preachy 9/11 aftermath flick but I was pleasantly surprised. It tells the story of a young Muslim British who leads a double life. There is a Yasmin who wears a burka when she's out in her neighbourhood, who cooks for her father and brother and who is only legally married to a potential immigrant. Then there's a Yasmin who wears modern Western clothes, hangs out at the pub with a colleague she fancies and doesn't mind an occasional drink. She knows that her family and neighbours won't accept this side of her and she knows that her colleagues won't accept the Muslim side of her. However, after 9/11 Yasmin is forced with an identity crisis and it is here that she discovers her strength and the beauty of who she really is. 'Yasmin' never goes over the top which in a way is its strength but also its weakness.The execution, for one, is too simplistic. The cinematography, the lack of score, the washed out colour look, the sound design, doesn't occasionally feels too dull. There are also some cultural clichés that 'Yasmin' seems to not have been able to escape.Archie Punjabi is marvelous in the title role. It's a tour du force performance which she plays very subtly unlike the hyped Hollywood performances that beg for an Oscar. The rest of the cast do a decent job, especially the actor playing her husband.'Yasmin' attempts to tell a different side of the aftermath of the 9/11. Even though it's not shown for more than a few minutes it's still an intriguing perspective and an important story.

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.

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.

Film Review 'Yasmin'The movie is about a Muslim but rather unconventional woman in her twenties, called Yasmin Husseini, who is torn between two worlds. On the one hand there are the temptations of the western world – being free, being young, having fun – on the other hand she is trying to fulfill the expectations of her traditional family. Even though she loves her family, she is unsatisfied with her situation – arranged marriage, fixed role. The western world offers her an escape when she is going to work or spending time with her friends. Hiding one world from the other she is struggling with her real identity, morals and honesty. After 9/11 the house of cards crashes, and facing prejudices towards her culture Yasmin is forced to take a decision. All in all I think director Kenny Gleenan has done a good job portraying problems of our society: Islamophobia and preoccupation – and also the struggle of a young generation of Muslims having grown up in a western society. The cast is mostly non-professional but that is not a flaw, it even seems to underline the authenticity. I recommend this film because watching this motion picture, the viewer will find a movie which is realistic, moving, funny and – of course – contains a love story.