8 d. ago Brides review – teenage girls head to Syria for IS and marriage in powerful and poignant drama

Two friends leave the UK and head to the Turkey on their way to marry Islamic State jihadis in this spirited drama directed by Nadia FallThe phenomenon of Islamic State brides, which became a press preoccupation with the case of Shamima Begum – who 10 years ago left the UK at the age of 15 to join IS and is still in a Syrian refugee camp – is now filtering through to fictional representations; they are striving for a sympathetic, intimate way of intuiting the motives and feelings of young women who were hardly more than children when they were radicalised, and somehow get more pruriently disapproving media coverage than the male jihadis. Nussaibah Younis’s hit comic novel Fundamentally tells the story of an aid worker tasked with bringing IS brides home to the UK, and now there is this watchable comedy-drama from screenwriter Suhayla El-Bushra and director Nadia Fall.It is about two teenage girls: shy, thoughtful Doe (Ebada Hassan) and stroppy, lairy Muna (Safiyya Ingar), who make t...

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9 d. ago Spice Girls icon and All Saints star join Rebel Wilson for huge new movie

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1 week ago ‘We noticed how those young women were so vilified’: Nadia Fall on her debut film, Brides

The Young Vic artistic director tells why she wanted to reframe the story of girls lured to Syria to join Islamic StateIn Nadia Fall’s debut feature film, Brides, two teenage girls run away from Britain to join Islamic State in Syria, after being lured by social media posts promising freedom. If the story sounds familiar, it’s because it was inspired by real-life events.Fall, the artistic director of the Young Vic, said: “I was doing a play with the writer Suhayla El-Bushra at the National [Theatre], and we were approached about making a film. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Humiliated' Loose Women stars boycott NTAs as This Morning scoops big award

Stars from the ITV daytime show Loose Women were noticeably absent from this year's National Television Awards, while the programme's sister show, This Morning, won an award

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3 w. ago ‘The energy is infectious’: why Bride and Prejudice is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is an ode to Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 spin on the Austen classicWe’ve never been short of Jane Austen film adaptations. In fact, it seems a new one arrives every decade – two were announced recently, including Netflix’s spin on Pride & Prejudice. Yet, one adaptation has been shamefully overlooked: Gurinder Chadha’s Bride & Prejudice.A cross-cultural, British-and-Bollywood-meets-Hollywood take on Austen’s most famous novel, the film is pure joy – a riot of original musical numbers, colourful costumes, chaos, culture clashes and, of course, romance. Continue reading...

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