Something to watch tonight: Thursday 21 November
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (aka Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle) (Gordon/Parreno, 2006)
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…
