Blinded by the Light (2019)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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There was great joy in Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in “Almost Famous” craving for the raw power of the Velvet Underground: “Gimme some ‘White Light/White Heat!’”
Reminiscent of Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous , the strength behind Blinded by the Light is the music – in this case, it’s ‘The Boss’ leading the way.
Chadha is best known for the 2004 adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” and the 2002 family sports film, “Bend It Like Beckham,” the only feature film to be distributed in every single country on the planet.
No obstante, ha servido de inspiración para construir historias basadas en las canciones de bandas famosas, séase desde el idilio de una joven por encontrar la identidad de su padre bajo el compás de ABBA en Mamma Mia! (2008) o el tributo a The Beatles tras la pérdida de memoria de la población global sobre su existencia en Yesterday (2019).
This is not another song-and-dance revue like Mamma Mia! or another misconstrued ode to the power of pop like Yesterday; there’s way more Springsteen here than there is Beatles in that other movie, for one thing.