Bangladeshi woman trapped in a loveless London marriage begins torrid affair with hunky local lad. Sounds pretty terrible, right?
This is put together so preciously and obviously for the most part, but the final half hour actually managed to surprise me just by taking a sharp turn away from all the cliched forbidden romance/pining for exotic culture stuff that makes up much of the first two-thirds of the film. It's rare to see a film tackle issues of love and identity so realistically.
That initial hour or so, though....man. That's rough going.
