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Coming-of-Age Essays, personal essay

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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and finding a place in a man’s world

by Danielle Acton

October 2, 2019

I first saw Gurinder Chadha’s “Bend It Like Beckham” (2002) in my Film as Literature class when I was sixteen. I remember the film sticking out to me because I