Brick Lane
United Kingdom, 2007 | 101 min. | Dir. Sarah Gavron
Monica Ali’s ambitious novel has been adapted into a modest but pleasant first feature by Sarah Gavron. Similar in theme to the beginning of The Namesake—but far more subtle in the telling—Brick Lane follows a young Bangladeshi woman (Tannishtha Chatterjee) as she is shipped from her bucolic home and married off to a London cabbie (the excellent Satish Kaushik). As her daughters grow up and learn standoffishness, she starts fancying freedom of her own, and finds it (sort of) in the sexy young man who brings her piecework. The film is unfailingly gorgeous, if sometimes self-conscious about its glamour.
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