It's a Wonderful Afterlife

Kevin Thomas

Writer-producer Gurinder Chadha has enjoyed much success in finding humor, touched with sentiment and poignancy, in life in Britain's Indian communities, most notably with her international hit "Bend It Like Beckham," about the plight of an Anglo-Indian girl obsessed with playing soccer but plagued by disapproving traditional parents. While her latest, "It's a Wonderful Afterlife," is affectionate and energetic, its comic premise seems too silly, and at times, too tedious, to hope for much cross-cultural appeal, despite a fine, committed cast. [...]

di Kevin Thomas, articolo completo (1690 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 7 ottobre 2010