Alternate versions The word football was been replaced by soccer in many US prints. Connections Featured in Goodness Ungracious Me! User reviews Review. Top review.
Mississippi Masala meets Chariots of Fire. This movie might best be characterized as a collection of formulas - underdog sports flick, culture clash flick, generational conflict flick, young-love-overcomes-obstacles flick. And yet to dismiss the movie with this quick sketch and a few references would do it a terrible injustice.
And, it really IS a collection of all these movie formulas - and, I submit, they do exactly what they're intended to do. The formulas lead to their inevitable pay offs, of course, but they pay off in ways that are not quite expected.
The final outcome is rarely in doubt, but throughout the twists and turns, the audience at least the audience where I was watching , find themselves shamelessly twisting their hankies on the sidelines, crying just a little where they're supposed to cry, and cheering when they can't but cheer.
There is a point at which you want to stand up and clap wildly - it's not at the end, so you can't, but the audience where I saw it sure wanted to. I think they felt a little cheated that they couldn't. The mood of the end is not one conducive to raising the rafters, but many clapped softly anyway. Granted the movie isn't timed quite right, but it really IS that good - it makes you want to show your gratefulness for the efforts of writer, director, and actors.
Any flaws of timing or plausibility I find I can easily forgive due to the overwhelming charm of the movie's star, Parminder K. Her expressions, her boundless energy and defiance, her ability to convey the conflict her character feels between duty to family and wishing for something more - I was completely taken in, from start to finish. This actress is going places. She has the kind of playful wit and irreverence you see in the best early John Cusack, coupled with a depth to play convincing disappointment and struggle.
Drive miles if you have to. It has that same magic. It doesn't hurt that Ms. Nagra possesses a true, deep, classic beauty and grace akin to that of, say, a Kelly or a Bergman. I mean, my fellow red-blooded males, this woman is flat-out, drop-dead stunning.
She's equally fetching as a feisty tomboy jock my personal preference or as an elegant, traditionally clad Sikh woman. Go see it to watch her, even if the subject matter isn't your thing. Simon Clifford was hired to help with the 'football choreography' in the film, having previously worked on There's Only One Jimmy Grimble , a film about a young boy who dreams of playing for Manchester City. In one part of the film, the girls travel to Germany to take on a team there.
Chadha recalls how the actresses gave everything they could to beat the German side, and were more like real footballers than people playing the parts : "They played and felt like a proper team that had been playing for years together.
Once I got the shots I needed, I'd yell cut but no one would stop playing. The girls refused to lose, they had completely forgotten the script and they begged me to let them keep playing until they could give the German side a good stuffing. The most bizarre thing was how the crew went berserk supporting our girls against the German girls! Nagra , is a physically exuberant girl whose love of soccer crosses over into a love of life. She runs onto the field as if simply at play, she does cartwheels after scoring goals, and although she deceives her parents about her soccer dreams, she loves them and understands their point of view.
Her father, who played cricket in Uganda but was discriminated against by the local London club, still bears deep wounds, but "things are different now," Jess tells him, and there is the obligatory scene where he sneaks into the crowd at a match to see for himself. Can there be an Indian comedy without a wedding?
All ethnic comedies feature scenes that make you want to leave the theater and immediately start eating, and "Bend It Like Beckham" may inspire some of its fans to make Indian friends simply so they can be invited over for dinner.
The movie's values run deep. It understands that for Jess' generation soccer is not about displaying bare legs Jess has another reason to be shy about that , but it also understands the hopes and ambitions of parents--and, crucially, so does Jess, who handles the tentative romance with her coach in a way that combines tenderness with common sense. A closing scene at the airport, which in a lesser movie would have simply hammered out a happy ending, shows her tact and love.
Like all good movies, "Bend It Like Beckham" crosses over to wide audiences. For that matter, the hip Sundance audience, dressed in black and clutching cell phones and cappuccinos, loved it, too. And why not, since its characters and sensibility are so abundantly lovable. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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