Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Country: GB/GER/US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis:
A Hounslow Indian girl obsessed with football is encouraged by a white girl to train for the local women's side, but clashes with her family's traditional mindset.
Review:
We have been here before, and the director would come back again (Blinded by the Light), but on this occasion she touched a nerve with the nascent women's football thing. Unfortunately there are too many strands, with the sister's wedding and Knightley's mother (Juliet Stevenson) thinking she is a lesbian, and the result is too long for a light comedy. Then there are the endless sports montages set to hit songs (yes, even Nessun dorma), which have badly dated, but at least Nagra's committed performance allows us all to recall a time when something mattered more than anything else in the world.
Country: GB/GER/US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis:
A Hounslow Indian girl obsessed with football is encouraged by a white girl to train for the local women's side, but clashes with her family's traditional mindset.
Review:
We have been here before, and the director would come back again (Blinded by the Light), but on this occasion she touched a nerve with the nascent women's football thing. Unfortunately there are too many strands, with the sister's wedding and Knightley's mother (Juliet Stevenson) thinking she is a lesbian, and the result is too long for a light comedy. Then there are the endless sports montages set to hit songs (yes, even Nessun dorma), which have badly dated, but at least Nagra's committed performance allows us all to recall a time when something mattered more than anything else in the world.
Country: GB/GER/US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis:
A Hounslow Indian girl obsessed with football is encouraged by a white girl to train for the local women's side, but clashes with her family's traditional mindset.
Review:
We have been here before, and the director would come back again (Blinded by the Light), but on this occasion she touched a nerve with the nascent women's football thing. Unfortunately there are too many strands, with the sister's wedding and Knightley's mother (Juliet Stevenson) thinking she is a lesbian, and the result is too long for a light comedy. Then there are the endless sports montages set to hit songs (yes, even Nessun dorma), which have badly dated, but at least Nagra's committed performance allows us all to recall a time when something mattered more than anything else in the world.