Country: UK
Year: 2007
Duration: 101'
At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen is obliged to exchange her Bangladeshi village home for a flat in London’s East End, after an arranged marriage to an older man. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas and stomach, he sorely tests her compliance. Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim bursts into her life. “I was immediately drawn to the story and themes of Brick Lane. The challenge of the adaption to screen was for us to allow the film to explore these themes, but to dirtill the novel. The character of Nazneen was the key to this. A Bangladeshi woman, finding her place in the world. Staying tight to the story of our central character allowed the film to be subjective. The result is that this is not an issue film, or a representation of a community or a culture – it is a human story.”
Biography
film director
Sarah Gavron
(London, 1970) attended the University of York, where she graduated in English literature. She went on to receive an MA in film and television from the Edinburgh College of Art, then attended the National Film and Television School in London and she
worked for the BBC. She directed several TV documentaries, the shorts Losing
Touch (2000) and The Girl in the Lay-By (2000), that won several awards at different festivals and made her awardwinning feature-length debut with This Little Life (2003) for the BBC TV. Brick Lane (2007) is her feature debut.
FILMOGRAFIA
Losing Touch (cm, 2000), The Girl in the Lay-By (cm, 2000), This Little Life (TV, 2003), Brick Lane (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Sarah Gavron
soggetto/story dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the homonymous novel by Monica Ali
sceneggiatura/screenplay Abi Morgan, Laura Jones
fotografia/director of photography Robbie Ryan
scenografia/set design Simon Elliott
costumi/costume design Michael O’Connor
montaggio/film editor Melanie Oliver
musica/music Jocelyn Pook
suono/sound Andy Shelley
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Tannishtha Chatterjee (Nazneen Ahmed), Satish Kaushik (Chanu Ahmed), Christopher Simpson (Karim), Lalita Ahmed (Mrs Islam), Naeema Begum (Shahana Ahmed), Harsh Nayyar (Dr Azad), Lana Rahman (Bibi Ahmed), Harvey Virdi (Razia), Zafreen (Hasina)
produttore/producer Alison Owen, Christopher Collins
produzione/production Ruby Films, Seven Seas Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales The Works International
soggetto/story dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the homonymous novel by Monica Ali
sceneggiatura/screenplay Abi Morgan, Laura Jones
fotografia/director of photography Robbie Ryan
scenografia/set design Simon Elliott
costumi/costume design Michael O’Connor
montaggio/film editor Melanie Oliver
musica/music Jocelyn Pook
suono/sound Andy Shelley
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Tannishtha Chatterjee (Nazneen Ahmed), Satish Kaushik (Chanu Ahmed), Christopher Simpson (Karim), Lalita Ahmed (Mrs Islam), Naeema Begum (Shahana Ahmed), Harsh Nayyar (Dr Azad), Lana Rahman (Bibi Ahmed), Harvey Virdi (Razia), Zafreen (Hasina)
produttore/producer Alison Owen, Christopher Collins
produzione/production Ruby Films, Seven Seas Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales The Works International