http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/movies/21thin.html
Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one. When we last saw Sheetal Sheth and Lisa Ray (in New York and Los Angeles, that was just two weeks ago) they were playing would-be lovers in “The World Unseen.” Now they’re back to continue making eyes at each other in “I Can’t Think Straight,” yet another weightless confection from the writer and director Shamim Sarif.
This time Ms. Ray is Tala, a spoiled Jordanian who has bailed on three previous suitors and is about to be married to fiancé No. 4. But as Tala’s wealthy family plans a lavish Christian wedding in Amman, the bride-to-be is dallying in England with Leyla (Ms. Sheth), a coy Indian Muslim who writes flowery fiction and has difficulty keeping a boyfriend. Fortunately, a succession of glowing Hallmark moments on polo field and tennis court lie in wait to nudge the ladies toward sexual reorientation.
Will Tala once again dump her betrothed? Will Leyla’s nosy parents find her K. D. Lang CD? Before these and other burning questions can be answered, the plot must plod through a confetti storm of obstacles — religion, ethnicity, overbearing mothers — all of which are overcome in dewy, unsmudged close-up. This isn’t a movie, it’s an alternative-lifestyles campaign for Maybelline.