Brick Lane (2007)
Country: GB
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 102m
Director: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson
Synopsis:
A girl from a Bangladeshi village experiences the suicide of her mother and is separated from her sister when her father marries her off to a far older man in London. Years later, living in increasingly precarious circumstances in their flat with two teenage daughters, she embarks on a tentative affair with the young second-generation Bangladeshi who brings her sewing work.
Review:
Subtly shaded drama which confines all of its point of view to the central female character, beautifully played by Chatterjee. Even so, the lumpish, puffed up and naïve husband eventually garners some of our sympathy and there is a rapprochement between the two, albeit one which involves a degree of separation. What comes over most of all is the extent to which the wife and her wishes are silenced by cultural expectations, so that her only release from repression derives from colourful reveries partly inspired by her sister's letters, and later her dalliance with the young lover.
Country: GB
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 102m
Director: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson
Synopsis:
A girl from a Bangladeshi village experiences the suicide of her mother and is separated from her sister when her father marries her off to a far older man in London. Years later, living in increasingly precarious circumstances in their flat with two teenage daughters, she embarks on a tentative affair with the young second-generation Bangladeshi who brings her sewing work.
Review:
Subtly shaded drama which confines all of its point of view to the central female character, beautifully played by Chatterjee. Even so, the lumpish, puffed up and naïve husband eventually garners some of our sympathy and there is a rapprochement between the two, albeit one which involves a degree of separation. What comes over most of all is the extent to which the wife and her wishes are silenced by cultural expectations, so that her only release from repression derives from colourful reveries partly inspired by her sister's letters, and later her dalliance with the young lover.
Country: GB
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 102m
Director: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson
Synopsis:
A girl from a Bangladeshi village experiences the suicide of her mother and is separated from her sister when her father marries her off to a far older man in London. Years later, living in increasingly precarious circumstances in their flat with two teenage daughters, she embarks on a tentative affair with the young second-generation Bangladeshi who brings her sewing work.
Review:
Subtly shaded drama which confines all of its point of view to the central female character, beautifully played by Chatterjee. Even so, the lumpish, puffed up and naïve husband eventually garners some of our sympathy and there is a rapprochement between the two, albeit one which involves a degree of separation. What comes over most of all is the extent to which the wife and her wishes are silenced by cultural expectations, so that her only release from repression derives from colourful reveries partly inspired by her sister's letters, and later her dalliance with the young lover.