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Memorable, crazy movie

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The acting in this movie is really good.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is a film that has deeply touched me and very few does these days. First of all, I liked the movie and I expected a worse handling looking at the lineup. Kudos to the cinematographer for the breathtaking shots of Bangladesh (my a native, so I'm partial here). The effort from the director and the lead cast to remain as authentic as possible is evident and I thank them for it, but what felt to me was an uneven pacing with uncharacteristic moves from all three of it's leads. There are app-laudable reviews and I won't repeat them. In regards to handling Bangla language, only Chatterjee as a native speaker although from India are relatively convincing to us native speakers but both male leads obviously didn't know what they were saying and I must add trying to use the Sylhet dialect was admirable dedication but it's not a language easy to put on. In the end it's evidently a production for Bangladesh from non-Bangladeshis and the minor lack of the cultural heart is felt through the film.....aside that, Thanks for making this movie. It's still a good one.

Brick Lane is the adaptation to cinema of the novel with same name, written by British writer Monica Ali, and published in 2003. I never heard of that book, but i must say that the film is below average at best. Apart from the fact that this film has beautiful shots and many beautiful songs composing a good soundtrack, it is dread and full of outdated and unconvincing stereotypes of the Muslim people. It's known the fact that they(Muslims) live in a relatively big number into the Brick Lane street. However, it poor depiction and somewhat racist portrayal of the characters is not a good deal to this film. Is like saying that all the Muslims outside of Bangladesh are poor. And the most impressive of these archetypes is without a doubt,the ignorant father of family. However, he is a kind of a philosophy student, so his behavior with his family is, most of the time, nonsense and contradictory with his own nature. The acting was average, with his ups and downs. Not much thought on it. The story itself is very slow and uninteresting most of time. I do not recommend this film. 4.9/ 10

BRICK LANE is one of the more satisfying films about our remaining cultural identity crises. Based on the novel by Monica Ali and adapted for the screen by Laura Jones, this film flows through the lives of young Bangladeshi sisters - one married off to a successful older obese fellow countryman living in London and the other remaining in the family village. The story is at once sensitively private in its communication between the separated sisters whose sole communication is by letters, each longing for the other sister's advantages, and also woven into a public examination of how 'immigrants' adapt in a foreign country, absorbing all the idiosyncrasies of that new land and the altered perception of the world outside as it changes in dramatic ways. Nazeem (the radiantly beautiful Tannishtha Chatterjee) is married by arrangement to the fat successful Chanu (Satish Kaushik): the two take up residence on the Brick Lane known as London's Little Bangladesh. Nazeem is a quiet and dutiful wife (longing for her sister and her village home), bears Chanu a son (who dies a crib death) and two daughters who comfortably are absorbed into the country of England, the only home they know. The aging Chanu is intelligent but fails to hold jobs, partly because of this outspoken behavior and in part due to prejudice of his employers. Nazeem longs to return to Bangladesh, but when she is required to take in sewing to aid the falling family coffers, she meets the young and handsome Karim (Christopher Simpson). The two fall in love and Nazeem struggles with her duties and moral obligations as a wife and mother and her surfacing realization of her own identity. The Twin Tower tragedy of 9/11 occurs and the people of London turn against the Muslims: Karim is an activist and defends the rights of his fellow Bangladeshi brothers, hoping to encourage Nazeem to join him and remain in London. Nazeem struggles between passion and duty and ultimately finds her own path - becoming a complete woman individual of mature mind. And the results of her growth spell out the ending of the film. The cast is large and very fine, and the photography by Robbie Ryan captures both the childhood remembered magic of Bangladesh and the raw realism of life in London. The musical score by Jocelyn Pook enhances the changing moods of this touching and significant movie. Director Sarah Gavron has found the perfect balance to tell this story of love, family obligations, and the changes of the world events. It is a film well worth seeing multiple times. Grady Harp

The main female actress did a powerful job in her facial expressions. You could see the pain and anguish that she was carrying with her turn into smiles then strength. I particularly enjoyed observing the relationships between sisters of two generations: the one of the mother and her sister and the one of her two modernized daughters. The film portrays the Moslem culture as smothering the feelings/rights of women. It was interesting to see my feelings towards the husband change from unsympathetic to sympathetic. The film got poor reviews in the local newspaper, but I went ahead and saw it anyway. I'm glad that I did! The film also deals with the concept of "home" and awareness of how one defines it. The correspondence exchange between the main female character in London and her sister in Bangladesh reminded me of the correspondence exchange between sisters in "Pride and Prejudice."