‘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.
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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.”
The film portrays Maradona as a Messianic figure to Latin Americans.
“I don’t really feel that I am God. There is one one God and it’s not me,” he said, but added: “People have faith in me, they believe in me as perhaps they believe in God… and I’m not going to contradict them.”
He did pass on one anecdote, about a time when he was on an aeroplane with his daughter when it hit turbulence. Seeing that she was frightened “a man saw me on the plane, leaned over to my daughter and said, ‘Don’t worry, God is with us.’”
Asked to name his favourite actress, Maradona replied:
“Julia Roberts. I would do anything to see her come along the Croisette. I would cut off my hand for that, even the hand with which I scored against England.”
Some excerpts from Press Conference: “Maradona by Kusturica”
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