Brick Lane
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- Synopsis
- Director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan team to adapt author Monica Ali's award-winning novel about a young girl from Bangladesh who finds the spark in her soul slowly fading after traveling to London for an arranged marriage....
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- Director(s)
- Sarah Gavron
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 101 min.
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The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites
Beautifully acted and written so its themes are touched upon glancingly rather than with full force.Read the full review
The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites
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 heroine, and makes her world a bit too small.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Jan StuartAdd Critic to Favorites
Brick Lane has been whittled down from Monica Ali's expansive 2003 novel into a glossy but overly efficient drama that, like Nazneen's husband, is ultimately too ineffectual to make much of a dent.Read the full review
