Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S.S.C. Napoli in the 1980s.... (Full plot summary below)
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Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S.S.C. Napoli in the 1980s.
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| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIn what’s been a banner year for archival docs that repurpose footage into absorbing, contemplative cinematic experiences (“Amazing Grace,” “Apollo 11,” “They Shall Not Grow Old”), Kapadia reasserts his mastery of the format, especially as a force of perspective from inside and outside a superstar’s orbit. |
| IndieWireEric KohnYou couldn’t ask for a better match between filmmaker and subject. |
| The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckYou may know the outlines of the soccer legend’s life, but there’s no way you won’t learn something from Diego Maradona, Asif Kapadia’s absorbing and exhaustive new film. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergIt is exhausting and exhilarating, cheap looking and slick, a documentary for Maradona fans but also for many others besides. |
| RogerEbert.comNell MinowKapadia's film shows us that for better or worse, Maradona's loyalty was always to the game, and that, as much as his skill on the field, deserved more loyalty from the fans. |
| CineVueRhys HandleyUltimately, Diego Maradona is about the corrupting influence of exceptionalism – swept into the game and made financially responsible for his family at 15, the arrested development Maradona suffers is writ large and ultimately leads to his downfall. |
| The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeI found myself gripped by a universally accessible tale of a divided soul – a figure whose dual personas are embodied in the two names of the film’s title; Diego and Maradona. |
| The PlaylistBradley WarrenKapadia’s tight focus and compelling viewpoint make “Diego Maradona” a must-see for soccer fans, and certainly a biographical doc of interest to wider audiences. |
| Screen InternationalFionnuala HalliganEven with an abrupt ending and the sense of unfinished business, Diego Maradona is more satisfying than Kapadia’s previous work. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawKapadia’s film is a gripping account of Maradona’s playing career until the mid-90s, though it is flawed by a lack of new material of the sort he had for his previous film about Amy Winehouse. |
