Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:3
Rotten:16
Average Rating:3.8/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: When Nina (Shelley Conn) returns to her home in Glasgow, she's shocked to learn that her family has sold half of the share in their Indian restaurant. But she's even more surprised by her... [More]
Starring: Laura Fraser, Shelley Conn, Art Malik, Ronny Jhutti
Director: Pratibha Parmar
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Reviews for Nina's Heavenly Delights
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offers high production values while telling a conventional tale with several moderately unexpected twists. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Touches of magic realism indicate we are in an ideal world where love will, if not conquer everything, then pretty much hug it into submission. Full Review |
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 2/4 |
Nina's Heavenly Delights hints at better-simmered versions of similar dishes. Full Review |
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1/4 |
A lightweight and sentimental exercise that succeeds at little except maybe inspiring the viewer to go out and find a decent curry. Full Review |
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This combination of melodrama, comedy, music and romance eventually falls under the weight of its endlessly stereotypical characters, dialogue and situations. Full Review |
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1/4 |
This movie's heart is in the right place, which is one way of saying it's terrible. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Parmar's film is light and sweet, comfort food dressed up with a dash of exotic spice. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
A cloying blend of Bollywood sentiment and Amélie whimsy, Nina’s Heavenly Delights is a lesbian-foodie fairy tale that keeps its appetites well under control. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
It's ironic how a film whose outcome depends on the difference between technical perfection and perceived, artistic greatness, would itself prove a slave to shallow screenplay mechanics deprived of nuance. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
You know a cross-cultural, gender-bending dramedy has issues, when its most memorable moment is a blasphemous, bouncy Bollywood musical finale featuring a female impersonator. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Parmar scores pleasant performances across the board...Yet the story is bland, like it's been over-workshopped in a screenwriting class, too polite and too smooth around the edges. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Making her feature debut after several documentaries, Parmar displays rookie jitters with excessive cutting and camera moves whose restlessness occasionally recalls Mumbai soap operas. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
The novelty value of an east meets west cultural dynamic isn't enough to disguise how late Nina's Heavenly Delights is to the celluloid coming out party. Full Review |
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It's a lovely ideal, and the food dishes are photographed scrumptiously, but the whole thing comes off undercooked. Full Review |
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Veena Sood plays Nina's mother with magisterial presence. But Conn overacts just as much as the impetuous Nina overreacts. Full Review |
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Disappointingly tepid and flavourless fare. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Like a dainty appetiser, Nina's Heavenly Delights tries but fails to fill you up. Full Review |
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1/5 |
I wanted to like it, but this new Glasgow-set drama really is weak. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
In her feature debut, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar falls back on every cliché she's supposedly trying to undermine. Full Review |
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