Thursday 9th September 2010
6.30pm doors open for pre-screening drinks and nibbles
7pm film screens
Our next screening is ‘Brick Lane’ based on a book by Mon
ica Ali. The book was controversial to some Bangladeshis living in London and then the making of the film added fuel to the fire with a group of local Bangladeshis threatening to disrupt the filming and burn the book. The filming then took place elsewhere but not before Germaine Greer weighed in and then Salman Rushdie retaliated to Germaine’s comments.
ica Ali. The book was controversial to some Bangladeshis living in London and then the making of the film added fuel to the fire with a group of local Bangladeshis threatening to disrupt the filming and burn the book. The filming then took place elsewhere but not before Germaine Greer weighed in and then Salman Rushdie retaliated to Germaine’s comments. Read more about this on the Sydney Morning Herald’s archives http://www.smh.com.au/news/film-reviews/brick-lane/2008/03/20/1205602528332.html
Synopsis
At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance.
Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life.
Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.
Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life.
Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.**** "I thought I knew how this would end, but I was wrong."
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD***1/2 "... beautiful... an accomplished feature"
Margaret Pomeranz, AT THE MOVIES
Rated M 101 minutes UK English language
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