Brick Lane (2007): A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. (6.5)
Director: Sarah Gavron
Stars: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik and Christopher Simpson
Touches on various aspects of the post-9/11 society for immigrant muslims. If you watch carefully, there are no villains or heroes in this movie and everyone has a quirk or a problem or a dysfunction seen through someone else's eyes. Leaves more questions than answers and doesn't tie a nice bow at the end. That's life and that's what it should be, IMHO. [Wish there was an English subtitle track as sometimes it is difficult to decipher the British mumble-speak.] My rating: 7.5
