Bend It Like Beckham Movie Review (2. I saw more important films at Sundance 2. Korean movie reviews from 2005, including Once Upon a Time in High School, Tae Guk Gi, The Big Swindle, Arahan, Woman is the Future of Man, Low Life, Windstruck. It stars a young actress of luminous appeal, it involves sports, romance and of course her older sister's wedding, and it has two misinformed soccer moms- -one who doesn't know a thing about the game and another who doesn't even know her daughter plays it. The movie, set in London, tells the story of Jesminder Bjamra, known as . Her parents are Sikhs who fled from Uganda to England, where her dad works at Heathrow airport. They live in the middle- class suburb of Hounslow, under the flight path of arriving jets, where her mother believes that Jess has two great duties in life: to learn to prepare a complete Indian meal, and to marry a nice Indian boy, in exactly that order. Advertisement. Jess plays soccer with boys in the park.
This cute guy just asked you out on a movie date, so give yourself a quick makeover before the date tonight. It'll really impress him if you show up to the movie.In her family's living room is a large portrait of a Sikh spiritual leader, but above Jess's bed is her own inspiration- -the British soccer superstar David Beckham, better known to some as Posh Spice's husband. To Beckham's portrait she confides her innermost dream, which is to play for England. Of course a girl cannot hope to be a soccer star, and an Indian girl should not play soccer at all, since in her mother's mind the game consists of . The coach is a young Irishman named Joe (Jonathan Rhys- Meyers), and it is love at second or third sight- -complicated, because Joe cannot date his players, and Juliette has a crush on him, too. But all of these elements make the film sound routine, and what makes it special is the bubbling energy of the cast and the warm joy with which Gurinder Chadha, the director and co- writer, tells her story. I am the first to admit that Gurinder Chadha is not a name on everybody's lips, but this is her third film and I can promise you she has an unfailing instinct for human comedy that makes you feel good and laugh out loud. Her previous film was the wonderful . There is an emerging genre of comedies about second- and third- generation young people breaking loose from traditional parents (. The parents must be strict and traditional, but also loving and funny, and Mr. Bhamra (Anupam Kher and Shaheen Khan) are classic examples of the type. So is Juliette's mother, Paula (the wry, funny British star Juliet Stevenson), who tries to talk her tomboy daughter into Wonderbras, and spends most of the movie fearing that a girl who doesn't want to wear one must be a lesbian. 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 ? All ethnic comedies feature scenes that make you want to leave the theater and immediately start eating, and . 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, . It's being promoted in the magazines and on the cable channels that teenage girls follow, but recently we showed it on our Ebert & Roeper Film Festival at Sea, to an audience that ranged in age from 7 to 8. 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. Iraq child 'suicide bomber' caught in full Chelsea kit. This is the dramatic moment Iraqi soldiers disarm a young child in a Chelsea kit who was found with what appears to be a suicide bomb strapped around his waist. The boy, thought to be about seven, was seized outside the war- torn Iraqi city of Mosul after hiding among families fleeing ISIS. A soldier can be seen gently lifting up the child's blue shirt, bearing the name of Chelsea star Eden Hazard, to reveal what looks like an explosive belt fastened to his midriff. In a tense two- minute clip, he then slowly snips wires and cuts away the device while telling the youngster: 'Don't be afraid'. Video captures the dramatic moment Iraqi soldiers disarm a young child in a Chelsea kit who was found with what appears to be a suicide bomb strapped around his waist. Video of the encounter was captured outside Mosul. A caption with the footage, released on Live. Leak, claims that the boy is the youngest ever child suicide bomber - however this has not been verified. In the clip a soldier can be seen crouching down next to the youngster and speaking to the camera. He says the video is being filmed on March 1. ISIS. The child, thought to be called Uday, says he was sent by 'Amo', which means uncle, with instructions to target 'the army'. The soldier then asks him to raise his arms. In the next few moments, the soldier slowly snips off bandages holding up the device, which appears to include a mobile phone and batteries. When the child flinches, the soldier says: 'Don't be afraid'. The harrowing video emerged as Iraqi government forces attempted to evacuate civilians from Mosul's ISIS- held Old City on Tuesday so that troops could clear the area, but militant snipers hampered the effort, Iraqi officers said. The boy, thought to be about seven, was seized outside the war- torn Iraqi city of Mosul after hiding among families fleeing ISISA soldier can be seen gently lifting up the child's blue shirt, bearing the name of Chelsea star Eden Hazard, to reveal what looks like an explosive device fastened to his midriff. They said the insurgents were also using civilians as human shields as government units edged towards the al- Nuri Mosque, the focus of recent fighting in the five- month- long campaign to crush Islamic State in the city that was once the de facto capital of their self- proclaimed Islamic caliphate. As many as 6. 00,0. Mosul, complicating a battle being fought with artillery and air strikes as well as ground combat. Thousands have escaped in recent days.'Our forces control around 6. Defence Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told a news conference in eastern Mosul. We are trying to evacuate them.'We are a few hundred metres from the mosque now, we are advancing on al- Nuri. We know it means a lot to Daesh,' he said, using an Arab acronym for Islamic State. The capture of the mosque would be a huge symbolic prize as well as strategic gain for the government as it was there where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al. In a tense two- minute clip, he then slowly snips wires and cuts away the device while telling the youngster: 'Don't be afraid'The child says he was sent by 'Amo', which means uncle, with instructions to target 'the army'Baghdadi and other leaders have fled the city for the hinterlands, where ISIS remnants may regroup and wage a new phase of insurgency. At the same time, ISIS forces in the Syrian city of Raqqa are under attack in a parallel conflict. Brigadier General Saad Maan said soldiers had killed nine ISIS snipers on Tuesday and destroyed a bomb factory.'There are lots of snipers on top of the buildings in the Old City around the al- Nuri Mosque. We need to evacuate the families from inside as they using them as a shield when we are advancing on the mosque,' he told the news conference. No precise toll of civilian casualties has been given but a prominent Iraqi politician said last week that the number could be as high as 3,5. Mosul started in mid- February. An emergency field hospital set up by the U. S. They suffered wounds from gunfire, land mines, mortar rounds, car bombings and booby- traps. Reporters at the frontline on Tuesday said clashes took place around the railway station in some areas troops had held a few days earlier. Troops fired rocket- propelled grenades and heavy machineguns at militants around the station as families ran across streets to avoid snipers In the clip a soldier can be seen crouching down next to the youngster and speaking to the camera. The soldier then asks him to raise his arms and in the next few moments, the soldier slowly snips off bandages holding up the device, which appears to include a mobile phone and batteries'We sitting inside our house and bullets were coming through our door' said one woman fleeing to government lines. Saad Maan also said the bodies of a colonel and two other officers who had gone missing during the battle had been found. The colonel had been shot. But he said the men had not been captured by the insurgents. An Interior Ministry official told Reuters on Monday that the insurgents had captured a police colonel and eight other officers after they ran out of ammunition during a skirmish. But a Rapid Response units spokesman denied this when asked for comment on Monday night. The issue is sensitive as ISIS have a record of torturing, mutilating and killing military and civilian captives, and such an incident could be a blow to troops' morale. The number of displaced people from both sides of Mosul since the start of the offensive has reached 3. Some 1. 81,0. 00 had poured out of western Mosul since the start of the operations to retake that side.
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