Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.
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 – whilst serving her role as both wife and mother. But Nazneen submits, as she must, to fate and devotes 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.
Director Sarah Gavron and lead actor Tannishtha Chatterjee join Amanda Palmer at a Q&A to talk about how they took Brick Lane from novel to the big screen and the controversy that it stirred.
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