Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 34
Frustratingly slow-moving, but ultimately saved by Chatterjee's solid acting and Gavron's gentle patience.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 11
Frustratingly slow-moving, but ultimately saved by Chatterjee's solid acting and Gavron's gentle patience.
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Director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan team to adapt author Monica Ali's award-winning novel about a young girl from Bangladesh who finds the spark in her soul slowly fading after traveling to London for an arranged marriage. As a child, Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee) was always told that she was a survivor. Now, as a young adult, she must contend with the sudden death of her mother. Her father arranges her marriage to a man she has never met, and she gets shuttled off from her
Jun 20, 2008 Limited
Jan 13, 2009
$1.0M
Sony Pictures
All Critics (101) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (35) | DVD (6)
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.
Small, intimate and achingly modern, Brick Lane is a lovely study involving both one woman's awakening and the inevitability of cross-cultural pollination.
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.
[A] quietly observant and quite beautiful adaptation of the Monica Ali novel.
As the plot unfolds, it becomes apparent that director Sarah Gavron also finds attractive people more sympathetic, and this is Brick Lane's undoing.
Its flat, static quality belies the novel's richness.
A warm bath in comfortable platitudes.
The cinematography is gorgeous, the through-narrative is strong but subtle, and Gavron coaxes performances out of her actors that blend well with the overall tone and atmosphere.
A movie whose visuals are lovely to behold and lyrically awash in sensuality and desire, but sets the lives of women back at least a few centuries.
The sort of empowerment flick that could get a fatwa issued against the intrepid director daring enough to make a picture about Islam's subjugation of females.
A blandly earnest coming-of-age story.
Brick Lane is lovely to look at and the performances, particularly from Chatterjee and Kaushik, are delightful.
Despite the fine performances, Brick Lane comes across as a nice soap opera when it promised much more.
In Chanu, it creates an indelible protagonist. He thinks he is a man of ideas. He is a man who, when it counts, is full of common sense and uncommon feeling.
As long as Brick Lane remains focused on Nazneen, it succeeds admirably.
As a Westernised woman watching this film you really feel a sense of imprisionment and control the main character felt within the marriage and you really see the film through her eyes all the way through. It isn?t quite the story the synopsis explains it to be, which as it happens turns out to be a much better film
June 19, 2010Super Reviewer
A very touching story about a Woman filled with Hopes and Dreams which are shattered in to thousand pieces later.
December 1, 2009
Super Reviewer
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