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The Long and Winding Road of 'Brick Lane'new
Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
07-18-2008 |
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Tags: Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron
'Tuya's Marriage', 'Savage Grace' and 'Brick Lane': A Trio of No-Hanky Women's Picsnew
Three unhappy marriages, three desperate wives, three drastically dissimilar circumstances. Whom to feel sorry for? The bored spouse of the American plastics heir in Savage Grace? The homesick Bengal immigrant confined to her claustrophobic London council flat on Brick Lane? How about the eponymous protagonist of Tuya's Marriage, a woman who lives in a yurt on the Mongolian steppes, caring for her disabled husband and two children by herding sheep and running a farm by herself?
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-25-2008 |
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'Brick Lane' Feels More Like an Alley Thanks to Sloppy Scriptnew
Brick Lane revels in confrontations, but they burst forth without any build. Fewer incendiary incidents and a red pencil applied to the script might have freed the good movie that's buried somewhere beneath layers of unearned emotional conflict.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
06-19-2008 |
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Tags: Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron
