Frankly this looks more like Dynasty, with some very broad, soapy acting, coy sex scenes and some airily conspicuous wealth.
I Can't Think Straight (2008)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:4
Rotten:27
Average Rating:3.7/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2008 Limited
Synopsis:
Tala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin prepares for an elaborate wedding with her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best...
Tala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin prepares for an elaborate wedding with her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend Ali. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other but the attraction is immediate. Tala’s feisty nature provokes Leyla out of her shell and soon both women reveal their feelings for each other. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made and escapes back to Jordan where her chain-smoking high-brow mother finishes preparations for an ostentatious wedding.
As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, simmering family tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself. Meanwhile heartbroken Leyla relishes her newly found sense of identity and self-respect and moves on with her new life – much to the shock of her tradition-loving Indian parents. Single again, Tala flies back to London – but it will take more than just a date set up by Ali and Leyla’s sister Zara to win Leyla back.--© Regent Releasing
Starring: Sheetal Sheth, Lisa Ray, Antonia Frering, Dalip Tahil
Starring: Sheetal Sheth, Lisa Ray, Antonia Frering, Dalip Tahil, Nina Wadia, Ernest Ignatius, Siddiqua Akhtar, Amber Rose Revah, Kimberly Jarai
Director: Shamim Sarif
Director: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Studio: Regent Releasing
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Reviews for I Can't Think Straight
Shows the formidable barriers faced by two lesbian lovers in London, England.
Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.
A decent plot and strong characters can't quite overcome the limitations of this low-budget film, mainly because the director struggles to inject much energy or spark into the story. Which is frustrating for a premise with this much potential.
This is a tasteful, romantic lesbian flick, and neither romance nor taste is a substitute for hot naked lesbians getting it on.
From the wince-inducing title onwards, the script is laughably bad, especially when it attempts seriousnes.
This one's got it's heart in the right place...but little else to recommend it.
Both films are politically daring as well as what used to be called risque. Neither, I'm afraid, is well directed or acted.
A should-have-been straight-to-DVD film that ticks enough boxes to make its cinema release an example of affirmative action.
Lisa Ray provides the one spark of life in an otherwise drab, graceless production that appears to be set in the Eighties and has the feel of a bad Jilly Cooper novel.
I Can’t Think Straight, a glossy contemporary cross-cultural romance between a Palestinian Christian girl and an Anglo-Indian Muslim girl, is spectacularly dreadful.
A shy British Indian woman of the Muslim faith meets an outgoing Jordanian Christian woman, neither of whom can think straight in this entertainment from the mysterious East.
The comedic touches are well wrought, but there's a lot of plodding, earnest discussion about Palestine and Israel, when the focus should be on the Lebanese. Sorry -- the lesbians.
Although she has made two films in rapid succession, Sarif shows no discernible aptitude for her new medium.
Lipstick lesbianism among Muslims is the theme of this unfortunately blown chance to say something real and new. Shamim Sarif's film as fluffily lightweight as Deepa Mehta's Fire was dark and dire.
It's all very sex-lite - one character even does what Eamonn Holmes did last year, confusing lesbian with Lebanese.
Talk of Middle East politics seems out of place in a lesbian discovery tale, a fact reinforced by the cast, who look as though they're trying to pass kidney stones when the dialogue wanders to the news page.
She is still some way short of making a movie that deserves a ticket-buying audience.
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