Woman's film marriage plot. The female protagonists in these movies are driven by something other than romantic love. Within British cinema, David Leland returned to the formula of the 1980s woman's film in "The Land Girls" (1998). The film tells the story of three young women during World War II and offers its heroines the opportunity to escape their old lives. "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002) emphasizes the key generic theme of female friendship and casts the heroine in a conflict between the restrictions of her traditional Sikh upbringing and her aspirations to become a football player. Lynne Ramsay's "Morvern Callar" is
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1919 which became the theme song of the Ziegfeld "Follies". The first verse and refrain are considered part of the Great American Songbook and are often covered as a jazz standard. The portion of the song composed entirely by Berlin and published as sheet music comprised the first verse and refrain of the original stage number. The refrain begins, "A pretty girl is like a melody / That haunts you night and day", a summary of the