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BRICK LANE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

All credit to director Sarah Gavron and company for taking on the task of adapting “Brick Lane”, Monica Ali’s finely realized novel to the big screen. They’ve made bold cuts, condensing the story, but not the emotions, and distilling from it the essence of a woman’s journey from darkness to light. The darkness is the overwhelming… Read More »

Tagged With: arranged marriage, Bengali immigrants, book to screen, BRICK LANE, infidelity, Islam, London, Monica Ali, Susan Gavron, Tannishtha Chatterjee

Sarah Gavron Visits BRICK LANE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Sarah Gavron Visits BRICK LANE

When I spoke to Sarah Gavron at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 25, 2008, her film, BRICK LANE, was screening and she was anxious to find out what Bay Area audiences would make of it. She needn’t have worried, but then, worry was part of the process of bringing Monica Ali’s novel to… Read More »

Tagged With: arranged marriage, Bengali immigrants, book to screen, BRICK LANE, infidelity, Islam, London, Monica Ali, Susan Gavron, Tannishtha Chatterjee

Ruba Nadda is on CAIRO TIME

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ruba Nadda is on CAIRO TIME

For Ruba Nadda, CAIRO TIME was another chance to explore what is universal in all women, no matter what their ethnic or cultural background. The unexpected, and unlooked for, romance between a married American tourist and the Cairo native who was her husband’s trusted employee, unfolds, as the title suggests, at a pace that is… Read More »

Tagged With: Alexander Siddig, Cairo, Canadian, director, drama, Egypt, Islam, narrative, Patricia Clarkson, romance, Rubba Nada, writer

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