Abdul Nlephaz Ali, Bernard Holley, Christopher Simpson
The story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four wal...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 13, 2009
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August 21, 2009This calm and quiet film tells the story of a Bangladeshi woman that gets married to far away London, where we find her 16 years later with husband and daughters, struggling in her uneventful life and still hoping to return back home to her sister. How a couple of events change h...( read more)
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February 14, 2009A look into the life of a Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brick Lane, London, with her family & husband from an arranged marriage. It's a fairly average, pleasant TV drama. The most interesting character development actually centres around her husband.
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September 3, 2009
for sexuality and strong language.
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March 3, 2009Here's an interesting movie that is beautifully depicted and is filled with love, happiness, and self-discovery. The story plot centralizes around the life of Nazneen, a young woman who comes from a village. She moves to London to enter an arranged marriage with an older man. Liv...( read more)
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November 3, 2009
Brick Lane is a street in London in a neighborhood of Indians and Muslims. In this scenario the innocent characters are trying to survive. They're suffering from the attack of coup of his own country and the prejudice of the Londoners before and after September 11. The dialo...( read more) -
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September 7, 2009It's a good movie of yhe new age indian movies that become stronger since slumdog's millionaire, a story of love and cultural indian , that is good to see just for a change of movies only for Cinefilies
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August 13, 2009A classy direction with a strong score for an interesting look on closed life of a trap woman who discovered the real meaning of life through errors, religion and love.
Critic Reviews
July 17, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
July 4, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
[The film] hits all the clichés of romantic literary adaptation: montage, letters read aloud in voice-over, a swelling musical score. full review
June 27, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Brick Lane is about characters who have depth and reality, who change and learn, who have genuine feelings. And it keeps on surprising us, right to the end. full review
June 26, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
A sensitive and occasionally poetic film, Brick Lane is an absorbing tale of personal empowerment and emotional growth. full review
June 20, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
To hint that a heroine might have any flaws whatsoever would be just a bit too modern for this picture. full review
June 20, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Certainly touching, even heart-rending at times, and it mostly steers clear of the didacticism and sentimentality its subject matter often invites. But it never takes the full measure of its modest he...
June 17, 2008
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
No new ground is explored, however, in this handsomely constructed film. Nazneen's story seems familiar every step of the way. full review
November 15, 2007
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
The film is full of fabrics and shimmer and embroiderings of light and colour, giving a slender story the shy blush of art. full review
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