DVD Reviews
Bend It Like Beckham
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- Director: Gurinder Chadha
- Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Details: UK / 94 mins (12PG).
Taboos (represented by the ambitions of young Asian women to play football) are addressed in Chadha's comedy, which begs the obvious comparison with East is East; humorous in tone but with a serious undercurrent. The football sequences lack reality, but the tale and the performances more than compensate.
Review by Declan Burke
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