POFCRIT PODCAST 2024: Eva de Matos on Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2004)

https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/10/30/eva-de-matos-on-bend-it-like-beckham The podcast explores how Bend it Like Beckham humorously and poignantly explores themes of identity, tradition, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism and Britishness. Bend It Like Beckham follows Jess, a British Indian teenager who dreams of playing football despite her family’s traditional expectations. Set in a diasporic area of Asian immigrants and 2nd generation children the podcast discusses the associated inter-generational themes that permeate the film. The podcast also discusses the film’s specificity to 2003 and how the political climate may have influenced the film’s representation of multiculturalism.