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Shamim Sarif's "I Can't Think Straight" | Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2009
By gloria wong, Film Festival Editor
In Queer, South Asian/South African/British filmmaker Shamim Sarif's debut film I Can't Think Straight, Tala (Lisa Ray) is celebrating her fourth engagement with a decadent celebration thrown by her extremely wealthy Jordanian family. Everyone is hoping this one will stick. And it looks like it will—until Tala returns to her business in London and meets Leyla (Sheetal Sheth), a Muslim from a good British-Indian family. Having been raised in both a strongly religious family and reserved English society, Leyla is immediately offended by Tala's forthright opinions. But Leyla soon finds herself drawn to Tala (she IS Lisa Ray)—even though she has a perfectly serviceable, mom-friendly boyfriend in Ali and Tala has a perfectly nice, 'open-minded' fiancé in Hani. How the two manage to get together, break-up, get together and live happily ever after makes up most of the film's plot, though there are several amusing side characters that fill the frame.
Based on Sarif's own novel, I Can't Think Straight is a predictable but breezy and enjoyable romantic comedy helped enormously by its gorgeous and likeable cast. There is a casual ease with which Sarif mingles all the different identity politics at work between the characters (religion, culture, nationality, gender, class) but even this can feel a tad timid for the 21st century.
I Can't Think Straight kicked off this year's Vancouver Queer Film Festival and is playing again August 18th at Tinseltown Theatres. Visit www.queerfilmfestival.ca for more information.
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