With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi village for an unhappy arranged marriage to the much-older Chanu in London. As her daughters grow, they chafe against their parents' patriarchal traditions — as does Nazneen herself, when she falls in love with a newly radicalized young rogue from the neighborhood. The pacing, cinematography, and performances prove unusually slow and stately, but what really distinguishes this adaptation of Monica Ali's novel is its meditation on the grueling process of loving people for their true selves rather than in spite of them.