NOTE: This review was originally published by WomenArts on 6/27/08:
“Brick Lane is a beautiful film that could have been even better. Based on a well-regarded novel of the same name by Monica Ali, Sarah Gavron’s film is about a young Bangladeshi woman named ‘Nazneen,’ who’s sent to London as a teenager to marry a man she’s never met…”
Click HERE to read my full review (including chats with both director Sarah Gavron & her leading lady Tannishtha Chatterjee) .
Photo Credit: Chris Raphael (2007)