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Something to watch tonight: Thursday 21 November
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Something to watch tonight: Thursday 21 November

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (aka Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle) (Gordon/Parreno, 2006)

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Nov 21, 2024
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Zinedine Zidane in Zidan: A 21st Century Portrait, a 2006 documentary by Gordon & Parreno

The list of great football films is bafflingly short. Most sports movies, in fact, are not much more than workplace dramas dollied up with a sporting context. They don’t take seriously the skill involved and how tiny moments can transform a narrative completely.

In 1970, German director Helmut Costard tried to change that with a film called Fußball wie n…

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