Brick Lane
Drama
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2007
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The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
16 Nov 2007
Country:
GB, IN
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award3 wins & 5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
As the plot unfolds, it becomes apparent that director Sarah Gavron also finds attractive people more sympathetic, and this is Brick Lane's undoing.
– Peter Schilling,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
11 Jul 2008
fresh:
[A] quietly observant and quite beautiful adaptation of the Monica Ali novel.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
17 Jul 2008
fresh:
Brick Lane is a grown-up movie. It recognizes that there are different kinds of love and that some of them don't involve happily-ever-afters.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
31 Jul 2008
fresh:
Small, intimate and achingly modern, Brick Lane is a lovely study involving both one woman's awakening and the inevitability of cross-cultural pollination.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
1 Aug 2008
fresh:
Kaushik is remarkable as Chanu, a role that demands he be a buffoonish, yet loving man, intelligent beneath his self-aggrandizing attitudes, oversized ambitions and determined cheerfulness.
– Susan Walker,
Toronto Star,
18 Oct 2008