Maradona by Kusturica

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Audience Member Theme promised a lot, and delivered almost nothing. Clearly, director was big admirer of Maradona (who isn't?) but he failed to tell a story about him. This is also relentless self promoting film for a director that even starts the film proclaiming himself as Maradona of film! With one Cannes palm d'or he can compare himself with someone that won French cup, but definitely not Maradona. He insists in political line of the story, shows Diego's affection towards Castro and Chavez, but at the end he brings it to his fight with the west as he brings Diego to Belgrade and shows him destroyed army HQ (legitimate war target) and says that Xavier Solana (UN president at that time) is to blame. There are some nice moments when Maradona speaks about his kids and family, but it is nothing new or previously unheard. As the film progresses director says that he had problems meeting Diego in latter stages of filmimg, he even come to Argentina two times, but Maradona did not want to meet him. There is a feeling that Diego saw through director's lack of vision and did not want to support bad film, as this clearly is. The only similarity in Diego and Emir is that they both lived the best times of their lives in 1980's. Today Diego is a legend and Kusturica is an idiot. Best part of the film is the song Diego sings about himself in a bar. That says everything about the film. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I love it because they show Maradona, not like a simple soccer player, but rather like someone that has a big cosmovision of the politics around the world and someone that goes against the establishment. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Not the best documentary ever made, but it's entertaining and compelling for the most part. Kusturica's narration is pretty bad, and it sometimes feels more like Communist propaganda than a movie about a person. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Ti lascia la malinconia addosso, Maradona sarà stato ed è un personaggio controverso nonchè incoerente. Ma è unico nel suo genere. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Diegoooooo Diegooooo Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member This is anything but a sport documentary, Political stuff aside, Self-indulgence stuff aside & Worshiping Maradona stuff aside, This actually has a few interesting moments Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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