Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

• Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English subtitles.

Product Description Turner Prize-winning artist and filmmaker Douglas Gordon teams up with French artist Philippe Parreno to create a work glorious in its simplicity. The film was made by training 17 cameras, under the supervision of acclaimed cinematographer Darius Khondji, solely on footballer Zinédine Zidane over the course of a single match between Real Madrid and Villareal. Zidane himself recounts, in voice-over, what he can and cannot remember from his matches. Magnificently edited and accompanied by a majestic score from Scottish rock heroes Mogwai, this is not only the greatest football movie ever made, but also one of the finest studies of man in the workplace, an ode to the loneliness of the athlete and the poise and resilience of the human body. Amazon.co.uk Review An intriguing premise for a full-length feature, the idea behind Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is simple. Back in April of 2005, Real Madrid--replete with Zinedine Zidane, arguably the world’s finest footballer at the time--played Villareal in the Spanish league. At that game, seventeen cameras were all trained on Zidane. The film? At heart, it’s 90 minutes of following the great man around a football field. Yet it’s fascinating. Really. Save for the odd subtitled comment, and a not-entirely-comfortable compilation of the day’s news that’s interspersed at half time, the focus is purely one man playing a game of football. It’s not a raging success by any means, and there are moments in Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait where the interest level significantly drops. Yet when it works, it really works astoundingly well, and you’d be hard-pushed to find any other film that does anything even vaguely similar. It’s backed, it should be noted, with excellent supporting music too. The 2006 World Cup, of course, gave Zidane’s career an ending it never really deserved. And while Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait isn’t a dish that everyone’s going to warm to, those that do will surely be left reflecting on one of football’s greatest geniuses, rather than one mad moment in Germany.--Simon Brew Review "Entrancing documentary Football as never seen before. Mesmerising, poignant " -- Jonathan Dean, TOTAL FILM "Remarkable portrait of the footballing legend" -- SIGHT AND SOUND "Sublime .... the greatest film about football ever made". -- Jason Solomons, THE OBSERVER "The most purely enjoyable event at the Cannes Film Festival" -- Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN "a multi-faceted portrait that goes way beyond mere football Immediate yet somehow haunting, it s one of the year s essential cinema experiences". -- Trevor Johnston, TIME OUT