Tag: Diego Maradona
‘Maradona by Kusturica’ Trailer
We previously wrote about Kusturica‘s ‘Maradona‘ movie and short interview with Diego Maradona at Cannes Film Festival.
YouTube has a bunch of clips and trailers for this documentary. I thought you might enjoy this.
Maradona steals the show – Cannes 2008
Documentary film ‘Maradona by Kusturica‘ directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica had its premiere at 61st Cannes Film Festival, out of competition.
Maradona is at the festival to promote a self-titled docu.
Often considered as the best and most famous footballer in the world, Diego Maradona is also known for his cocaine addiction.
Gallingly for England fans, Kusturica portrays Maradona’s notorious handball in the 1986 World Cup as “a leap for justice”.
Another documentary about a flawed sporting icon, Mike Tyson, is doing the rounds at Cannes.
Maradona said there was little comparison between them:
“He lives in suffering, I live in joy. It is that which distinguishes us from one another.”
Of his one-time drug addiction, he said:
“I live my life in a different way now. I have abandoned those bad habits. Now I have a different life, I’m not living at 100mph as I used to. I’m taking it more gently.”
He explained why he agreed to the documentary:
“People have written a lot of books about me, made a lot of films about me. I have been portrayed as somebody evil, somebody bad, somebody mediocre. Emir was able to penetrate to my heart, to talk about what I have been through in the good and the bad moments of my life.”
