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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

2006 · 1h 30m · N/A Documentary
Directed by Douglas Gordon , Philippe Parreno

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Overview

Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, "Zidane" consists in a full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.

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All reviews
65%
Tomatometer
Fresh

For all the fuss that's sometimes been made of the film's semi-experimental approach, it is first and foremost a sensory experience that puts the viewer right on the field.

Michael Nordine, L.A. Weekly
Fresh

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.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh

To see everything boiled down to one man's stillness and movement is a transcendentalist high, a concentrated dose of poetry in motion.

David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh

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.

J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Rotten

Alternately hypnotic and irksome.

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

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