Diego Maradona
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
Sombre, breathless, measured documentary / sports, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.
Our read · Diego Maradona (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded documentary · sports entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Diego Maradona
What watching it is actually like.
“You want archive vérité on genius, ego, and fame at football's wildest peak.”
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