The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Directed by Mira Nair
Written by Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani, and William Wheeler
USA, 2013
At this point, it’s fairly trite if accurate to acknowledge how drastically the world has shifted since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. An equally cliched argument is how the United States has, since that ill-fated day, alienated the rest of the world with its quickly rising paranoia and single-minded obsession with taking down a presumed Other. The Reluctant Fundamentalist represents a missed opportunity to offer a more three-dimensional presentation of the struggles of a Middle Eastern citizen whose ambitions rival those of his American brothers. The ingredients are present, but the combination doesn’t amount to much.
The inciting event occurs during the opening credits, as an American professor is abducted in Pakistan and one of his colleagues is implicated as being involved. An American agent (Liev Schrieber) reaches out to that colleague,...
Directed by Mira Nair
Written by Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani, and William Wheeler
USA, 2013
At this point, it’s fairly trite if accurate to acknowledge how drastically the world has shifted since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. An equally cliched argument is how the United States has, since that ill-fated day, alienated the rest of the world with its quickly rising paranoia and single-minded obsession with taking down a presumed Other. The Reluctant Fundamentalist represents a missed opportunity to offer a more three-dimensional presentation of the struggles of a Middle Eastern citizen whose ambitions rival those of his American brothers. The ingredients are present, but the combination doesn’t amount to much.
The inciting event occurs during the opening credits, as an American professor is abducted in Pakistan and one of his colleagues is implicated as being involved. An American agent (Liev Schrieber) reaches out to that colleague,...
- 5/10/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is not the first time Indian Director, Mira Nair has adapted a celebrated work of fiction after 2004's Vanity Fair. She is also no stranger to tackling cultural mixing pots, having directed Namesake from 2006.
Based on Mohsin Hamid's novel of the same name, the film’s release is particularly topical after recent events in the U.S. Beginning in 2011 in Lahore, depicting the kidnapping of an American university professor, the brutal opening sequence is interspersed with scenes of a large celebration, highlighting how clueless family members are to the darker elements in their community.
In post 9/11 America, he becomes a more sympathetic character; although he’s much less charming on screen than in Hamid’s writing, you really feel for his predicament as he’s increasingly persecuted by ignorant members of the paranoid American public - spat at merely for having a beard, strip-searched in an airport,...
Based on Mohsin Hamid's novel of the same name, the film’s release is particularly topical after recent events in the U.S. Beginning in 2011 in Lahore, depicting the kidnapping of an American university professor, the brutal opening sequence is interspersed with scenes of a large celebration, highlighting how clueless family members are to the darker elements in their community.
In post 9/11 America, he becomes a more sympathetic character; although he’s much less charming on screen than in Hamid’s writing, you really feel for his predicament as he’s increasingly persecuted by ignorant members of the paranoid American public - spat at merely for having a beard, strip-searched in an airport,...
- 5/4/2013
- Shadowlocked
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 50 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” starring Kate Hudson!
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” which is rated “R,” also stars Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Martin Donovan, Nelsan Ellis, Haluk Bilginer, Meesha Shafi, Imaaduddin Shah, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Ashwath Bhatt and Sarah Quinn from director Mira Nair and writer Ami Boghani based on the highly acclaimed global best-selling novel by Mohsin Hamid.
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“The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” which is rated “R,” also stars Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Martin Donovan, Nelsan Ellis, Haluk Bilginer, Meesha Shafi, Imaaduddin Shah, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Ashwath Bhatt and Sarah Quinn from director Mira Nair and writer Ami Boghani based on the highly acclaimed global best-selling novel by Mohsin Hamid.
To win your free “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! You must be 17+ to attend this “R”-rated screening.
- 4/30/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Mira Nair’s powerful new film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on Mohsin Hamid’s best-selling and critically acclaimed novel, will open across the UK and Ireland on 10 May 2013, released by Mara Pictures.
The film, featuring an exceptional cast including Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by screenings at Toronto, London and Doha, winning the inaugural Centenary Prize and a Silver Peacock at the Film Festival of India.
Student demonstrations are raging in Lahore in 2010, as young Pakistani professor Changez Khan (Ahmed) and a journalist, Bobby Lincoln (Schreiber), share a cup of tea and conversation. Princeton-educated Changez tells Lincoln of his past as a brilliant business analyst on Wall Street, working for the ruthless Underwood Sampson (Sutherland). He talks of the glittering future that lay before him and the beautiful and sophisticated Erica (Hudson) with whom...
The film, featuring an exceptional cast including Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by screenings at Toronto, London and Doha, winning the inaugural Centenary Prize and a Silver Peacock at the Film Festival of India.
Student demonstrations are raging in Lahore in 2010, as young Pakistani professor Changez Khan (Ahmed) and a journalist, Bobby Lincoln (Schreiber), share a cup of tea and conversation. Princeton-educated Changez tells Lincoln of his past as a brilliant business analyst on Wall Street, working for the ruthless Underwood Sampson (Sutherland). He talks of the glittering future that lay before him and the beautiful and sophisticated Erica (Hudson) with whom...
- 3/29/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Tribeca’s 12th annual festival, running from April 17-28, recently announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections. According to Tribeca’s website, “The Spotlight section features 33 films — 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — that blur the lines of independent and mainstream filmmaking. Twenty-three films in the selection will have their world premieres at the Festival, a record number for the section.” See below for the official press release of this year’s lineup in all four categories.
2013 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Selections
For Spotlight, Midnight And New Storyscapes Sections, And Special Screenings
First-ever Storyscapes Section Showcases Innovative New Media Projects with Cross-platform Approaches to Storytelling
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections, projects in the new Storyscapes section and Special Screenings. The 12th edition of the Festival will take place from April 17 to April 28 in New York City.
The Spotlight...
2013 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Selections
For Spotlight, Midnight And New Storyscapes Sections, And Special Screenings
First-ever Storyscapes Section Showcases Innovative New Media Projects with Cross-platform Approaches to Storytelling
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections, projects in the new Storyscapes section and Special Screenings. The 12th edition of the Festival will take place from April 17 to April 28 in New York City.
The Spotlight...
- 3/28/2013
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Yesterday the Tribeca Film Festival announced their feature film selections for their Spotlight and Midnight sections which include 21 narrative and 12 documentary projects.
This year’s choices bring us films featuring a bevy of top Hollywood talent including Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, John Cusack,, Gemma Arterton and Zoe Kazan.
In a press release that accompanied the roster, Genna Terranova, Director of Programming for the festival said: “The documentary films in the Spotlight section this year highlight several famous individuals (including one very cute cat) who use their wit and bold personas to make us think and laugh. A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships.”
The festival will feature the world premieres of several highly-anticipated film projects from indie mainstays like Neil Labute and Richard Linklater, as well as new projects from veteran directors like...
This year’s choices bring us films featuring a bevy of top Hollywood talent including Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, John Cusack,, Gemma Arterton and Zoe Kazan.
In a press release that accompanied the roster, Genna Terranova, Director of Programming for the festival said: “The documentary films in the Spotlight section this year highlight several famous individuals (including one very cute cat) who use their wit and bold personas to make us think and laugh. A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships.”
The festival will feature the world premieres of several highly-anticipated film projects from indie mainstays like Neil Labute and Richard Linklater, as well as new projects from veteran directors like...
- 3/7/2013
- by Damen Norton
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tribeca Film Festival organizers announced on Wednesday 33 films ticketed for the Spotlight section of the April fest, including new movies starring John Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Zoe Kazan and Melissa Leo.
“A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships,” said Tribeca director of programming Genna Terranova in a press release. The Tribeca Film Festival had previously announced "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, as the opening night film, plus a full slate of documentary and feature films in competition.
Some highlights from the Spotlight roster include the world premieres of "Adult World" (with Emma Roberts and John Cusack), "Almost Christmas" (with Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti), "A Case of You" (with Justin Long), "Some Velvet Morning" (with Stanley Tucci and Evan Rachel Wood), "Trust Me" (with Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy and more...
“A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships,” said Tribeca director of programming Genna Terranova in a press release. The Tribeca Film Festival had previously announced "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, as the opening night film, plus a full slate of documentary and feature films in competition.
Some highlights from the Spotlight roster include the world premieres of "Adult World" (with Emma Roberts and John Cusack), "Almost Christmas" (with Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti), "A Case of You" (with Justin Long), "Some Velvet Morning" (with Stanley Tucci and Evan Rachel Wood), "Trust Me" (with Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy and more...
- 3/6/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the second half of its movie slate today with a lineup that includes Emma Roberts in Adult World, Zac Efron in racing-cum-farming drama At Any Price, and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. The releases are in the following categories, which make up the second half of the festival’s feature list: Spotlight, Midnight, Special Screenings, and Storyscapes, a new category this year to recognize work in transmedia — films the incorporate web-based and cross-platform elements.
The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison,...
The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison,...
- 3/6/2013
- by Adam Carlson
- EW - Inside Movies
Catch the new trailer for Mira Nair's thriller starring Riz Ahmed, Liev Schrieber, Kate Hudson, and Kiefer Sutherland. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, and scripted by Ami Boghani, William Wheeler and Amid. The film opens in limited areas via IFC Films on April 26th, 2013. We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica. But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez's dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: profiled, wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and interrogated, he is transformed from a well-educated,...
- 2/21/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Catch the new trailer for Mira Nair's thriller starring Riz Ahmed, Liev Schrieber, Kate Hudson, and Kiefer Sutherland. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, and scripted by Ami Boghani, William Wheeler and Amid. The film opens in limited areas via IFC Films on April 26th, 2013. We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica. But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez's dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: profiled, wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and interrogated, he is transformed from a well-educated,...
- 2/21/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an upcoming political thriller based on the novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid. The movie, which comes from director Mira Nair, opened last year’s Venice Film Festival and is set to open in limited theaters this April. We finally have the first trailer, some pretty cool images and a completely new poster to share – so make sure you check them all out in the rest of this report! Mira Nair directed the movie from a script written by William Wheeler and Ami Boghani, and the movie tells a story of a young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on...
- 2/11/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri | Written by Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani and William Wheeler | Directed by Mira Nair
South Asian directors making films in the West seem to have the expectation of them to tell stories related to their own origins, and Mira Nair has mostly done precisely that. Coincidence or not, I won’t comment on it, but her more successful and acclaimed films have been when they are stories of people from the Indian sub-continent. Another novel adaptation, Nair latest film takes us to Lahore, Pakistan, a city she has a personal connection with.
Following the kidnapping of an American professor, American journalist Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber) meets with Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed), another professor from Lahore University, who is suspected of being a fundamentalist. Told as a dialogue between these two characters, The Reluctant Fundamentalist follows...
Stars: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri | Written by Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani and William Wheeler | Directed by Mira Nair
South Asian directors making films in the West seem to have the expectation of them to tell stories related to their own origins, and Mira Nair has mostly done precisely that. Coincidence or not, I won’t comment on it, but her more successful and acclaimed films have been when they are stories of people from the Indian sub-continent. Another novel adaptation, Nair latest film takes us to Lahore, Pakistan, a city she has a personal connection with.
Following the kidnapping of an American professor, American journalist Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber) meets with Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed), another professor from Lahore University, who is suspected of being a fundamentalist. Told as a dialogue between these two characters, The Reluctant Fundamentalist follows...
- 10/19/2012
- by Maahin
- Nerdly
IFC Films announced today from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival that the company is acquiring all North American rights to director Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist starring Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, and Riz Ahmed in the title roles. Based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist tells the story of a young Pakistani man (Ahmed) whose pursuit of corporate success on Wall Street leads him on a strange path back to the world he had left behind. Toronto festival programmers wrote: “a boldly dramatic adaptation of a remarkable, timely novel, Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist promises to be one of the most talked about films of the year. Mixing romance and tragedy with the classic arc of ambition thwarted, Nair brings Mohsin Hamid’s award-winning 2007 book to the screen with both passion and insight. She also delivers a cracking thriller.
- 9/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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