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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:11
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.1/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 24, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Follow one of the greatest soccer players of the modern era for a full 90-minute match between Real Madrid and Villareal. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parenno exquisitely train 17 different 35mm... [More]
Director: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno
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Reviews for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
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In moments of stillness, a composition of fast jukes and stutter-steps delight the eye. It's a lot of hurry-up and wait at first, but well worth it come the film's finish. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
You learn little by way of hard facts about the adored French soccer star and famous head-butter Zinedine Zidane in the formalist exercise that bears his name. Full Review |
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4/6 |
To see everything boiled down to one man’s stillness and movement is a transcendentalist high, a concentrated dose of poetry in motion. Full Review |
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He's set apart not only as the piece's sole subject but because he's hyper-alert, continually responding to invisible forces, raptly focused on events beyond the frame. Full Review |
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 2/4 |
An overblown nearly-real-time documentary-cum-"art installation." Full Review |
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3/4 |
Alternately hypnotic and irksome. Full Review |
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Watching a single athlete for the duration of a game is an interesting concept, but Zidane is better in theory than in execution. Full Review |
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3/5 |
There's more filler than real action (much like any soccer match, in my opinion) and the film is a challenge to get all the way through for anyone without an interest in the game or Zidane himself. Full Review |
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The remarkably intimate camera work gives viewers the sense of being at this very big, very fast athlete's elbow throughout the 90-minute battle. Full Review |
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It mesmerises yet it also bores. It’s a fascinating experiment and a frustrating film. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Strangely enjoyable. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The stuff between goals can be agonizingly dull, but the film’s sensory impact is heightened by Mogwai’s menacing score and Darius Khondji’s dazzling cinematography. Full Review |
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It's both a revelation and a simple confirmation of everything you've ever believed, and an incredibly powerful, deeply emotional experience. Full Review |
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4/5 |
This 17-camera portrait of the artist as an ageing star still captures the magnetism and balletic genius of a player whose reputation will surely survive the naysaying of holier-than-thou commentators following his World Cup 2006 dismissal. Full Review |
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Zidane's charisma accumulates and the film becomes a hypnotic experience to which you must simply abandon yourself. Full Review |
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Absolutely hypnotizing. Full Review |
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The World Cup-winning god of French soccer, Zinedine Zidane, is brought crashing to the ground in Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon's ill-conceived documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Full Review |
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For that narrow cross section of auds passionate about soccer and experimental cinema, docu Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait will rep a masterpiece; for everyone else, pleasure will vary. Full Review |
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