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Brick Lane (2008)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:60
Rotten:33
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Frustratingly slow-moving, but ultimately saved by Chatterjee's solid acting and Gavron's gentle patience.
Theatrical Release:Jun 20, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $1,010,010
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum
Director: Sarah Gavron
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10/18/08
A blandly earnest coming-of-age story.
10/18/08
Brick Lane is lovely to look at and the performances, particularly from Chatterjee and Kaushik, are delightful.
10/18/08
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.
10/18/08
Top CriticDespite the fine performances, Brick Lane comes across as a nice soap opera when it promised much more.
10/18/08
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.
09/19/08
As long as Brick Lane remains focused on Nazneen, it succeeds admirably.
09/19/08
... an intriguing and visually interesting film that in aggregate never escapes the genre ghetto. It is another immigration song, a glancing curiosity that never really penetrates our preconceived romantic illusions.
09/12/08
Relative newcomer Chatterjee is a revelation as Nazneen. It's her character's predicament that holds our interest.
08/08/08
Brick Lane, by director Sarah Gavron and Angela's Ashes screenwriter Laura Jones, is, like Mira Nair's film The Namesake, a heartfelt portrait of the new immigrant experience.
08/08/08
The slant is feminist, but the most interesting character is not the saintly and long-suffering wife but her initially ridiculous husband (wonderfully played by Satish Kaushik).
08/08/08
The story has many themes to contend with and sometimes accordingly becomes unfocused, but when fully controlled it’s also quite moving and surprising.
08/07/08
Small, intimate and achingly modern, Brick Lane is a lovely study involving both one woman's awakening and the inevitability of cross-cultural pollination.
08/01/08
Top CriticBrick 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.
07/31/08
Top CriticChanu, a torrent of frustration who seems to be no more happy with the union than his wife is, confronts Karim in a memorable scene that packs a spark the rest of the film lacks.
07/24/08
Taken for what it is, Brick Lane is something entirely its own.
07/18/08
[A] quietly observant and quite beautiful adaptation of the Monica Ali novel.
07/17/08
Top CriticPoignant and subtle, it tackles cross-cultural conflict and racial intolerance.
07/14/08
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