Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

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This week, we’re hitting the pitch, or field, who knows, to discuss the Gurinder Chadha hit Bend It Like Beckham. This 2002 sports flick is one of the more beloved of the genre from the past 20 years.

Time Stamps:

00:30 – Introductions and Synopsis

04:37 – Quick Bend It Like Beckham Reviews

14:30 – Expanding the Syllabus

38:37 – Analysis

1:06:08 – Shelf or Trash

1:08:01 – Wrap up and Next Week’s Film

Learning to Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham is, on the surface, a movie about women playing soccer. But, below that, it’s a film about British identity as a young Indian Sikh named Jess must deal with the fallout of joining a female soccer club behind her disapproving parents’ backs. Similarly, her friend Jules has to constantly defend her tomboy behavior to her “very ladylike” mother.

This week, as we open up the film for analysis, we talk British Identity, feminism, British cinema style, Chadha’s style amongst her contemporaries and much more.

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