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Brick Lane [2007]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Tannishta Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson
directed by Sarah Gavron

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• beautiful
  A beautiful film. Haunting music and gentle acting. Only problem - seemed Nazeem was much younger than she was supposed to be. I shall now read the book.

• Slightly disappointed
  Having read and enjoyed the book, I was slightly disappointed in that I felt the treatment was too downbeat, particularly when we are introduced to the London setting. I also felt that some distinctions were too sharply drawn. Yes, past life on the sub-continent should be portrayed as idyllic, but the husband came across as "too wrong" (even though, if my arm were twisted, I would choose his as the best performance). Where were the nuances (like seeing Torville and Dean on TV and being excited by the... more info

• Cheating Bangladeshi Wife
  "Brick Lane" is a quality drama set in a Bangladeshi community in a council estate in East London. An attractive but submissive wife lives with her overweight, iconoclastic husband and her two daughters and reminisces about happier days in Bangladesh before having an affair with a dashing young Muslim militant for whom she makes clothes alterations as a means of supplementing the family income. After longing to return to Bangladesh and be reunited with her beloved sister, she comes to appreciate the... more info

• FANTASTIC FILM.....A MUST WATCH
  Really..really...really fantastic film. It shows how many women from Pakistan and Bangladesh living in the UK were promised of manythings, but in reality under the Pakistani & Bangladeshi culture they face very hard life under married life.
  Its a great film, you must buy it and watch it, it will open your eyes and bring the truth home.

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