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A VIEW FROM THE TOP
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FOX SEARCHLIGHT FILMS, 2002
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12:15, 2:30
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12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10
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BASIC (R)
Jess (Parminder K.
Nagra) and Joe (Jonathan
Rhys-Meyer) meet after
the season is over.
Soccer-Crazy Girls
This sporting life!
3:30, 10:05
BRINGING DOWN THE
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
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PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (R)
2:45, 7:50
[1:20], 4:20, 7:30, 10:35
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM: Produced, written
and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Written by Paul Mayeda
Berges, Guljit Bindra and Chadha. Produced by Deepak
Nayar and Chada. Executive producers, Ulrich Felsberg,
Russel Fischer, Simon Frank, Zygi Kamasa, Haneet
Vaswani. Music, Craig Pruess. Cinematography, Jong Lin.
Editor, Justin Krish. Production design, Nick Ellis.
Costumes, Ralph Hole. Starring Parminder K. Nagra, Keira
Knightley and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. With Anupam Kher,
Archie Panjabi, Shaheen Khan, Juliet Stevenson, Frank
Harper, Shaznay Lewis and Ameet Chana. Fox Searchlight
Films, 2002. PG-13. 112 minutes.
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ne of England’s deeply revered
Soccerati, the great David
Beckham, plays football for Man-
chester United (Man U to you). Beckham
appears in this film only in photographs and
archival footage, but his athletic ability in-
spires a young Sikh woman living in a
London suburb to want to play soccer pro-
fessionally. Beckham is famous for kicking
a soccer ball so it heads straight for the goal,
then curves away from the keeper and into
the net at the last possible moment. But
filmmaker Gurinder Chadha (Bahji on the
Beach, ’93; What’s Cooking, ’00) doesn’t
throw viewers a curve with her insider’s
look at an Indian family — she goes straight
for the heart.
The opening credits sequence is a day-
dream fantasy of Jess (Parminder K.
Nagra), who loves soccer and is terrifically
talented. When she walks home through the
park, it’s perfectly natural to be invited to
play football with the young Indian men in
her neighborhood. She plays better than
they do. But her mom (Shaheen Khan) is
getting tired of Jesminder “showing her
bare legs” to men instead of thinking about
marriage like her sister Pinky (Archie
Panjabi). Jess’s dad (Anupam Kher), who
works at Heathrow Airport, was a former
cricket player back in Uganda, so he’s
marginally more sympathetic to her
plight.
Likewise, Juliette Paxton (Keira
Knightley), called “Jules,” would rather
play soccer than shop. Her mother (Juliet
Stevenson) cannot imagine why her athleti-
cally lean daughter doesn’t want to wear
one of the dandy new pump-up bras she’d
like to buy for her. Jules’s dad, Alan (Frank
Harper), says if she’d rather play ball than
chase boys, that’s OK with him, and he en-
courages her by setting up a place to prac-
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tice in the back yard and kicking the ball
with her.
When Jules cuts through the park one
day, she sees Jess playing pick-up soccer.
Jules invites Jess to play with the Hounslow
Harriers, a semi-pro womens soccer team.
When Jess’s mom finds out, she says no.
But Jules encourages Jess to say she has a
job and just keep playing. Deception enters
the family circle and spreads. The real game
is on.
If you loved Monsoon Wedding and My
Big Fat Greek Wedding, you’ll love Bend It
Like Beckham Although it’s about the joys
of soccer, it’s also about family, tradition,
loyalty, change and yes, a wedding. Pinky,
the family shopaholic, is getting married,
and wedding plans move center stage. Jess
takes advantage of her parent’s inattention
to meet Jules and play football. And she
muses about the Harrier’s fine-looking Irish
coach, Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyer), a for-
mer footballer sidelined because of injuries.
Joe respectfully pushes the women to per-
form, but he’s not allowed to date anyone
he coaches.
You can see many of the plot maneuvers
a mile away, but that doesn’t distract from
the film’s simple pleasures. It’s not only a
feel-good, coming-of-age movie but also a
sweet story with characters to love. Chadha
has a really good sense of how contempo-
rary England’s ethnic diversity has warmed
up and expanded the country’s social life.
Young Indian women may have picked up
the quirks of British slang that identify them
as Londoners, but they have not lost the gra-
cious formalism of their own culture. They
respect tradition (and their elders) even as
they bring changes. Pinky’s wedding is a
celebration of family and community, and
all ages have a whale of a good time.
OK, just one soccer story. The actual
David Beckham, who is married to a Spice
Girl, has found his own way to publicize the
film, which took Britain by storm. He was
seen in public wearing a headband that
reads: BAND IT LIKE BECKHAM.
Clever boy!
Movie opens April 11 at the Bijou.
Highly recommended, thoroughly enjoy-
able movie.
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TWO WEEKS NOTICE
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THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER
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