Here is a teaser of the Maradona movie hitting the Cannes Film Festival today.
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The film is mainly based on Maradona not only being a soccer legend but also of him being a rebel fighting Western Imperalism. The main argument supporting this claim, in the film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica, is when Maradona scored 2 goals against England in the 1986 World Cup.
As many might know, the countries of Argentina and England don’t get along too well after the Falklands War in 1982 and that transcends over to soccer. Maradona, for some Argentinians, made up for the defeat in the Falklands by defeating England with the “hand of god” and the “goal of the century” during that game in Mexico in 1986.
The director of the film, Kusturica, highlights this point in his “Maradona” movie by making an animated version of the goal of the century(below) where Maradona flys by politicians like Maragret Thatcher, Tony Blair, and George Bush instead of English footballers.
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The documentary additionally shows Maradona hanging out with American haters, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, and wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a blood-spattered US President George Bush on it.
Well isn’t that just lovely. Personally, I think Maradona’s head was already high enough up in the clouds to need another documentary.
There is no doubting the genius that Maradona was as a player. There is also no denying that however amazing he was on the field, he also had equally serious problems off the field. In a look at one of the greatest players of all time, Emir Kusturica has made a documentary on Maradona that was just shown at Cannes. Apparently there isn’t a whole lot of footage of him playing, but a lot chatting with him about his life. It also appears that this documentary first started being shot in 2005 when Diego was bloated and having some serious drug problems. I’m hoping this one gets released here in the US.
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