• Director(s)

    Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    122m

  • Cast

    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Askell Einar Palmson, Viktor Benony Benediktsson

Film

Beautiful Beings

drug misuse, child sexual abuse, strong sex references

BEAUTIFUL BEINGS is an Icelandic drama in which a bullied teenager becomes friends with a violent group of boys, including one who seems to have supernatural visions.…

BEAUTIFUL BEINGS is an Icelandic drama in which a bullied teenager becomes friends with a violent group of boys, including one who seems to have supernatural visions.

sex
A teenage boy claims to have had sex with a sheep and a chicken. Teenage boys watch animated pornography online. One of them explains that he masturbates his dog and freezes its semen in ice cubes for others to unknowingly consume.
drugs
Teenage boys are shown smoking cannabis in what appears to be a home-made bong. They take magic mushrooms off-screen and are shown hallucinating and enjoying themselves together. Characters snort sugar, pretending it is cocaine and misuse other, unspecified, illegal substances. There are verbal references to selling other children tea leaves while claiming it is marijuana, and to using painkiller drugs to try to concoct a substance to give them a high. There are scenes of teenagers drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
sexual violence and sexual threat
It is implied that a teenage boy is raped by a man. It is strongly implied that a teenage girl is being raped by her step-father. A teenage boy claims he overpowered another in a toilet and has repeatedly orally raped him. It is implied that a man may have sexually abused his step-son.
Three teenage boys are shown taking turns to strangle one another to see how long each can stay conscious; one boy passes out but wakes up unharmed. A teenage boy cuts his wrist with a penknife, drawing blood. There are verbal references to domestic abuse, including a boy telling his friends his stepfather shot him in the eye with a BB gun when he was four years old, and the suggestion that a man would murder his wife if she tried to leave him. There is a theme of severe bullying in school, in which a boy is repeatedly punched by a gang of bullies and is later hit in the face with a tree branch, resulting in a bloody facial injury. There are strong scenes of violence in which teenage boys fight others, with punches, kicks, blows to the head and people pinned down and repeatedly hit in the face. A boy is strangled by an older teenager, but is released before serious harm is done. A man pins a boy against a wall and strangles him. A man is struck in the head with a heavy object, resulting in sight of blood over his hands and on bedsheets. There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'asshole', 'piss', 'dick', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'. There is discriminatory language, including the terms 'faggot' and 'retard'.

  • Director(s)

    Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    122m

  • Cast

    Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Askell Einar Palmson, Viktor Benony Benediktsson

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

drug misuse, child sexual abuse, strong sex references
Classified Date:
13/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Signature Entertainment
sex
A teenage boy claims to have had sex with a sheep and a chicken. Teenage boys watch animated pornography online. One of them explains that he masturbates his dog and freezes its semen in ice cubes for others to unknowingly consume.
drugs
Teenage boys are shown smoking cannabis in what appears to be a home-made bong. They take magic mushrooms off-screen and are shown hallucinating and enjoying themselves together. Characters snort sugar, pretending it is cocaine and misuse other, unspecified, illegal substances. There are verbal references to selling other children tea leaves while claiming it is marijuana, and to using painkiller drugs to try to concoct a substance to give them a high. There are scenes of teenagers drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
sexual violence and sexual threat
It is implied that a teenage boy is raped by a man. It is strongly implied that a teenage girl is being raped by her step-father. A teenage boy claims he overpowered another in a toilet and has repeatedly orally raped him. It is implied that a man may have sexually abused his step-son.
Three teenage boys are shown taking turns to strangle one another to see how long each can stay conscious; one boy passes out but wakes up unharmed. A teenage boy cuts his wrist with a penknife, drawing blood. There are verbal references to domestic abuse, including a boy telling his friends his stepfather shot him in the eye with a BB gun when he was four years old, and the suggestion that a man would murder his wife if she tried to leave him. There is a theme of severe bullying in school, in which a boy is repeatedly punched by a gang of bullies and is later hit in the face with a tree branch, resulting in a bloody facial injury. There are strong scenes of violence in which teenage boys fight others, with punches, kicks, blows to the head and people pinned down and repeatedly hit in the face. A boy is strangled by an older teenager, but is released before serious harm is done. A man pins a boy against a wall and strangles him. A man is struck in the head with a heavy object, resulting in sight of blood over his hands and on bedsheets. There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'asshole', 'piss', 'dick', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'. There is discriminatory language, including the terms 'faggot' and 'retard'.
drug misuse, child sexual abuse, strong sex references
Classified Date:
04/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Signature Entertainment
Cuts:
This work had a compulsory cut made, removing a shot that constituted an indecent image of a child. Cut was made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, policy and the Protection of Children Act, 1978.
sex
A teenage boy claims to have had sex with a sheep and a chicken. Teenage boys watch animated pornography online. One of them explains that he masturbates his dog and freezes its semen in ice cubes for others to unknowingly consume.
drugs
Teenage boys are shown smoking cannabis in what appears to be a home-made bong. They take magic mushrooms off-screen and are shown hallucinating and enjoying themselves together. Characters snort sugar, pretending it is cocaine and misuse other, unspecified, illegal substances. There are verbal references to selling other children tea leaves while claiming it is marijuana, and to using painkiller drugs to try to concoct a substance to give them a high. There are scenes of teenagers drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
sexual violence and sexual threat
It is implied that a teenage boy is raped by a man. It is strongly implied that a teenage girl is being raped by her step-father. A teenage boy claims he overpowered another in a toilet and has repeatedly orally raped him. It is implied that a man may have sexually abused his step-son.
Three teenage boys are shown taking turns to strangle one another to see how long each can stay conscious; one boy passes out but wakes up unharmed. A teenage boy cuts his wrist with a penknife, drawing blood. There are verbal references to domestic abuse, including a boy telling his friends his stepfather shot him in the eye with a BB gun when he was four years old, and the suggestion that a man would murder his wife if she tried to leave him. There is a theme of severe bullying in school, in which a boy is repeatedly punched by a gang of bullies and is later hit in the face with a tree branch, resulting in a bloody facial injury. There are strong scenes of violence in which teenage boys fight others, with punches, kicks, blows to the head and people pinned down and repeatedly hit in the face. A boy is strangled by an older teenager, but is released before serious harm is done. A man pins a boy against a wall and strangles him. A man is struck in the head with a heavy object, resulting in sight of blood over his hands and on bedsheets. There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'asshole', 'piss', 'dick', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'. There is discriminatory language, including the terms 'faggot' and 'retard'.

  • Classified date

    13/01/2023

  • Language

    Icelandic