Brick Lane

...its talent for avoiding obvious choices on all fronts,narratively and stylistically, make it worth a look.

...well-drawn characters help make this an involving portrait of a community whose patriarchal traditions are under threat.

This is England, but we barely see a white face in a self-enclosed bubble of immigrant life.

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.

Opposed to her nostalgic recollection of her blissful mobility in India, here she’s confined by a series of small rooms and doorways, narrow streets and muted colors.