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This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Nelli (Pamela Tola), the daughter of a bourgeois family, dreams of an RnB singing career but is pressured by her family to apply for med school instead. One day she meets Sune (Samuli Vauramo), a reserved and idealistic hip hop DJ who refuses to sell his music out to a big record company even if it means he can't make a living by making music. Nelli asks Sune if he can help her to write some songs for her demo CD, and after an awkward beginning they start getting along and liking each other better. However, Nelli's rich family and her boyfriend Mikko (Jussi Nikkilä) aren't happy about her new career plans.The movie was originally praised as one of the best Finnish films in a long time and received a bunch of nominations for the Jussi Awards, a.k.a. "the Finnish Oscars" – something that baffled me then and still does after a rewatch. The romantic plot is completely ordinary and clichéd, and the expected criticisms of the greedy music industry are hardly original either. Even though some of the songs on the soundtrack (composed by Jukka Immonen with lyrics by rappers like Elastinen and Asa, among others) are catchy, it's hard to hear how Sune's beats or Nelli's singing are 'underground' or particularly impressive in any way.In spite of its obvious unoriginality, Tyttö sinä olet tähti (literally "Girl You Are a Star" – I wonder who came up with the English name "Beauty and the Bastard") is not a terrible movie by any means. The lead actors Tola and Vauramo are convincing in their roles and Sune's foulmouthed rapper friends Kondis and Isukki (Joonas Saartamo and Eero Milonoff) are hilarious throughout. I also enjoyed the many real-life rapper cameos, even if most of them are very difficult to spot without knowing where to look. In the end, the film is probably best suited for younger viewers who haven't yet become jaded by the conventions of the romance genre. Fans of Finnish hip hop should also find it entertaining enough.

Boy meets girl. Boy is bad, but not really, girl is sweet and naive, but not really. together they shall be happy, and sing songs about fluffy killer rabbits (and the social injustice in FINLAND!!!) with a hip-hop beat. 8-mile, without the trailer park so to speak (which is also evident in the cinematography, no "harshness" in the pictures to be found, but instead filmed like a Kellogs commercial). Go tyttö, go tyttö..., but seriously: a plot so two-dimensional that it truly hurts to watch the clichés of characters and situations stumble over themselves in this soulless slur. I found it hilarious but for all the wrong reasons. found myself laughing when the characters were sincerely trying to come over that harsh bridge between the two oh-so different worlds they lived in. as a study in how to write films (dramaturgically "correct") this film is a gem. It follows it rigorously and therefore kills all imagination and depth. Whilst the film in itself is quite painful to watch, the actors do an OK job and the music + sound in general are OK. avoid.

The film is about a girl who wants to become a singer and finds a boy who makes rap-music to help him. Off course they fall in love and all kinds of things happen.i would describe the film to be a comedy, but with a lot of drama in it.I feel that the film had such a realistic and light touch to life that I felt like this could be real.The movie's character are the typical finnish 20-year old people. They have problems, but they take it easy.The plot was pretty basic lovefilm plot, but the best thing about the film was it how it was made. It was directed and acted superbly. I didn't feel that any of the characters would be acted badly.The music of the film was perfect.It made me laugh and cry and it bacame my favourite film of the new millennium.

I found this actually one of the first decent movies in Finland, it is a story about a crude rap music producer and a girl from a good rich family. By different reasons they end up working together, both trying to achieve what they need, and pull trough with their friends and family. Movie has lot of situation comic, it is catchy and interesting to follow from the beginning to the end. Some nice romance in it too, but without spoiling it with too much mushiness. Actors manage to perform quite naturally and lot of the movie feels like it could easily be from everyday life - with touch of naiveness though. It had one very obscure scene, and some unnecessary effects stuffed in out of the blue, but overall I was quite impressed.