The Braid

It's an intertwined drama of three women set in modern times in India, Italy, and Montreal, Canada. The three women each face lift-changing crises that finally connect by the end of "The Braid." Smita (Mia Maelzer) is an impoverished Dalit Hindu woman who desperately wants a better life for her daughter, Lalita (Sajda Pathan). She is willing to risk all in this pursuit.

Giulia (Fotini Peluso) is a young Italian woman who works in her century-old family business. Suddenly, her father (Mimmo Mancini) is in a serious automobile accident and lies in the hospital in a coma. Giulia, against the wishes of her mother (Manuela Ventura), tries unorthodox ways to save the business with the help of Kamal (Avi Nash).

Sarah (Kim Raver) is a single mother and partner in a Montreal law firm. She has 10-year-old twin sons (Adrian and Dorian Doroslovac) and a struggling 16-year-old daughter, Hannah (Sarah Abbott). Sarah suddenly faces a crisis that sends her already hectic life over the top.

"The Braid" is cleverly presented and emotionally compelling. Maelzer, Peluso, and Raver are all excellent, though Raver's character had believability script problems. Secondary characters are more forgettable or don't have enough time to develop. That's a problem with a two-hour movie telling three stories. Nonetheless, the film moved me, especially the story in India that resonated with the message of "Origin," another film I've recently seen.

Well this movie must be seen by all ages around the world however, to me there is great injustice. Movie ends with struggling women around the world however, i clearly found out the real struggle was done only by the "untouchables" Indian woman as by comparison both Italian and Canadian women are living already a wonderful life in comparison to Indian woman. I wish I could speak to director/producer of this movie and highlight that in which was he or she thinks that Italian and Canadian women are going through real struggle in their lives except the point that hairs of such poor women in India are used as business thus helping Italian woman? Considering this point I highly feel there is injustice in the movie however, yet I enjoyed watching this movie. There was a constant flow in the movie.

First hour of movie was really touching. It felt little slow (though its a slow movie) at times after that. However overall it was really good. I loved it. This gave me almost similar feeling as of 21 grams. I was overwhelmed.

I am from India, and I really wonder how they shoot the Indian part so realistically. Most of the Indian movies cant do that justification. The village, people, things, fields etc. Were very realistic.

However there were few issues/gaps. Indian woman wanted to give better life and education to her child, but by risking everything, what she actually did towards it, how exactly she worked towards her aim, was not very clear. Canadian woman, what was her instance on her career aspirations vs her children, was also not very clear.

No pun intended - actually that saying is even better and more apt in the German language ... and would make my typical no pun intended feel wrong ... but I'd still write and say it. The movie is about three different characters ... and their struggle. They have different issues and you might not get how and why we get to see all their stories ... the end will give you an answer about them being connected or not (I think most can guess at least the answer to that question).

The acting is top notch ... the story is well told, even if we do have some cliches that the movie feeds into. Be it the workplace and being sick stuff ... and what that means for the individual ... but the journey has to be taken ... and while it may have some bumps along the way ... in the end it works out nicely ... or does it?

This is an incredibly wonderful movie of the lives of three women that are karmically connected by threads of destiny and it shows struggles it is at the same time sad and beautiful and demonstrates the best of humanity the endurance of the feminine in a world gone mad sometimes it's a movie which has subtitles that scares people off although it shouldn't because it spans the globe and it is beautifully filmed the dialogue is natural and realistic as is the acting of everyone involved I give everybody 10 stars for this and hope you watch it to the end and believe in the actual reality of hope!