beauty in trouble ( kráska v nesnázích ) be not a great title . all the description of this film fail to capture what it really be an adult fairy tale . a poor girl be woo by a prince . the girl and marcela and play by the stunning anna geislerová and have an isabelle huppert beauty and with a red hair and face and figure that be beguile and sexual and and endlessly fascinate . she have a louse of a husband and but they have great sex . the kid listen to the lovemaking through wall . it rough and passionate and a the sex of the working class seem to often be portray in film . but it also for u to recognize that this be the thing that bind them together in an otherwise incompatible marriage . the husband and a professional car thief and be eventually catch and throw in jail . how she get into this marriage we do not know and but she be not exactly a high class herself . but she beautiful and intelligent ( we assume ) and love her gorgeous and resilient kid . she deserve more . and she may get the life she deserve eventually . ( no spoiler . ) she be force to move back with mom after her husband be send to jail . mom have a hideous second husband ( read ugly stepfather ) . he be a real horror show . he border on be a child abuser to the kid . he obsessive about cleanliness and but ungraciously fart at the table and all the while demand manner and decorum from the kid . he real low class socially handicap wretch . mom put up with him and like marcella husband and at least he lusty hideous but horny . the ambivalent and confusing and layered characterization be what make the film so powerful and interesting . these character have flaw and some seem drive by class and some by innate character . these flaw and detail of character be charm one minute and contemptible the next . the audience really have to negotiate conflict feeling of class and sexuality and ambition and commitment and and the role of a woman a mother and wife through the quickly change terrain of the story . at the bottom line and a with many film like the wonderful icelandic movie thicker than water ( blóðbönd ) and the child can be the victim . what right in the end may be what best for the child who be our salvation and our future . it a theme play out these day in film range from pan labyrinth to child of men . foreign . cinema be recognize in intricate morality tale that life be confuse and brutal and unfair and and a adult and we must get our act together in order to pass something worthwhile to the next generation . if we give in to our baser instinct and we may lose ourselves and the world in the process . the extraordinary and complex and colorful character in kráska v nesnázích speak to the quality of what make a man and what drive a woman and what embodies hope and what be class be it economic status of the fabric of one character . the film be richly human a embody by the very last 2 shot and which move me incredibly and unexpectedly . the director choice be so subtle and intelligent that to compare this to an american film seem unfair . american sometimes seem to lack the desire to consider that paradox in human nature do not offer set resolution . but here and perilously couch in ostensible fairy tale for adult and be interest moral question . don not be fool by the simple story while this be a great movie .