Archive of films Bend It Like Beckham / Bend It Like Beckham

United Kingdom
2002, 112 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2002

If you’re 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him, the world’s your oyster, right? Wrong. If you’re Jess – 18, Indian and a girl – forget it. Luckily, one day Jess meets Jules who is also 18 and is looking for new talent for a girls’ soccer team....


Synopsis

If you’re 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him, the world’s your oyster, right? Wrong. If you’re Jess – 18, Indian and a girl – forget it. Do you think for a minute that your relatives, who are solely interested in getting you hitched as quickly as possible to some suitable young man, will allow you to play such a manly game as soccer? Especially when doing so would frustrate your sisters’ chances for an advantageous engagement? But one day Jess meets Jules, a girl the same age who is searching for new talent for a girls’ soccer team. Jules has her future all planned out. She’s going to make it to the United States where the girls get paid, get sponsorship and get the proper respect – and where they can turn professional. Jess and Jules very quickly become thick as thieves over their passion for soccer, and they’re both superb players. But problems arise when they both fall in love with their coach, and when Jess’s parents discover that their daughter is hiding something from them....

About the director

Gurinder Chadha not only directs, but also writes and produces her films, and in 1996 she appeared in The Stupids. She co-wrote her last two films with Paul Mayeda Berges. Filmography: Acting Our Age (1992), Bhaji on the Beach (1993), What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who’s Funny (1994), A Nice Arrangement (1994), Rich Deceiver (1995, TV), What’s Cooking (2000), Bend It Like Beckham (2002).

About the film

Black & white, 35 mm

Section: Horizons
   
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Screenplay: Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges
Dir. of Photography: Jong Lin
Music: Craig Pruess
Editor: Justin Krisch
Producer: Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha
Production: The Works
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson
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