Brick Lane

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  • Opened June 20, 2008 
  • 1 hr 41 min
  • PG-13 | some sexuality and brief strong language
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+. More on child suitability

  • Nazneen’s life is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen. Forced into an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum, Lana Rahman
  • Director: Sarah Gavron
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Tells a story we think we already know, but we're wrong: It has new things to say within an old formula. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Kirk Honeycutt

Beautifully acted and written so its themes are touched upon glancingly rather than with full force. Read full review

75
Miami Herald
| Connie Ogle

A slow-moving but heartfelt film. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

While the film pivots around Nazneen, perhaps at the expense of other characters, it doesn't sell her short. This is a rich, revealing and elegant portrait, and one well worth spending time with. Read full review

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Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen in "Brick Lane."