British director Asif Kapadia’s highly anticipated third documentary feature, ‘Diego Maradona,’ premiered Out of Competition at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night.
Expectations ran high but the football legend could not make it to the festival owing to a shoulder surgery that he is undergoing in Mexico.
Diego Maradona the film has emerged out of several years of rummaging through video footage, researching innumerable published articles and conducting 80-odd interviews.
The 130-minute film focuses on the Argentine football legend’s turbulent and triumphant seven-year stint with SSC Napoli, which he joined in 1984 for a then world record fee.
The film captures the life and times of the genius through his triumphs and tribulations of the 1980s and early 1990s. It was a period during which Maradona saw great highs, including Argentina’s 1986 World Cup victory, and lows, which included messy run-ins with authority.
—Hollywood Reporter
