Access Film Club: Blinded by the Light at Glasgow Film Theatre
Tuesday 10 September , 2019 at 8.00 p.m.
From Gurinder Chadha, the director of Bend it Like Beckham, Blinded by the Light is a joyous coming-of-age story. Set in 1987, during the restrained days of Thatcher’s Britain, the film follows a teenager who learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the words and music of Bruce Springsteen.
Britain, 1987: When music fanatic Javed discovers the illustrious back catalogue of Bruce Springsteen, his world is turned upside down. Already a creative soul, his passion for music and writing is set alight by the songs of the working-class poet, whose lyrics feel all too familiar to the aspirational teenager. Yearning to escape his rundown hometown and the rules of his traditional Pakistani household, Javed finds himself caught in between two worlds and must discover if he too is Born to Run… Blinded By the Light is a timely coming-of-age story that proves that the right song has the capacity to transcend race, religion and place, and help us discover who we really are.
Blinded By the Light had its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival, and has been hailed as: “a glorious and almost terminally pure coming-of-age story” by David Erlich of IndieWire, with Johnny Oleksinski of The New York Post declaring: “I guarantee it will make you feel better than any other film that comes out this year.”
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
This section: Cinema
Filed under: Cinema
Related Pages
- Youth Screening: Grey Gardens at GFT
- If Only I Could Hibernate
- Fantastic Machine at GFT
- Bleeding Love at GFT
- Sometimes I Think About Dying at GFT
- Special Screenings to Mark Anniversary Year at Glasgow Film Theatre
- The Lives of Others – 35mm, Special 50 Anniversary Screening GFT
- Cinema Paradiso – Special 50th Anniversary Screening GFT
- Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources (Double-bill) – 50th Anniversary Screening GFT
- Late Night: Escape from New York
- Fellini’s Roma + Introduction
- Take 2: Kids Animations: Why’s the Sky Blue?
- Billy Connolly’s Big Banana Feet at GFT
- At the Volta with James Joyce, GFT
- B Movie.Lust and Sound in West Berlin
- One Night In Millstreet
- The Teacher’s Lounge
- Close Your Eyes
- Ratcatcher – 25th Anniversary
- Silver Haze plus recorded Q & A