THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST

Wednesday November 19th 2014
USA/UK/Qatar 2012 128 minutes 
Director: Mira Nair 
Starring: Keifer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed.

The film opens with Changez Khan talking to an American journalist in 2011.Working at Lahore university he is under suspicion by the CIA of being involved in the kidnapping of an American professor. In flashback to the year 2000 we follow Changez’s past career from a successful graduate of Princeton university to a popular high-flier with a Wall Street valuation firm. But all that changes with the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre. He realises that as a Pakistani he is no longer fully accepted and starts to question his life and motives. Can he find a balance between economic fundamentalism and religious fundamentalism?