{"id":2501,"date":"2021-01-19T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/?post_type=films&#038;p=2501"},"modified":"2021-03-28T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T09:53:33","slug":"diego-maradona","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/films\/diego-maradona\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Maradona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asif Kapadia\u2019s previous award-winning documentaries (\u201cSenna\u201d[2010] and \u201cAmy\u201d[2015]) are expertly woven, archival tapestries exploring cultural icons worthy of single name titles.<\/p>\n<p>His new film, however, on arguably the world\u2019s greatest-ever footballer, needs both his first and surnames because friends and family know him as Diego, the sweet-natured, insecure street kid from Buenos Aires; and then there is his alter-ego Maradona, a ruthless, cocksure global icon, immensely talented but utterly self-destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Kapadia focuses on Maradona\u2019s mid-1980s heyday, playing at Italian club Napoli, where he pretty much single-handedly took a perennially losing team to their only two league titles, as well as driving an average Argentina side to World Cup glory at Mexico &#8217;86 with his divine left foot and, \u201cthe Hand of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAlongside these victories, his private life collapses into adultery, addiction, and dubious criminal links. The blend of rare footage and intimate audio testimonies, including from the eponymous anti-hero, produces an enthralling cautionary tale of a genius fighting his greatest opponent- himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asif Kapadia\u2019s previous award-winning documentaries (\u201cSenna\u201d[2010] and \u201cAmy\u201d[2015]) are expertly woven, archival tapestries exploring cultural icons worthy of single name titles. His new film, however, on arguably the world\u2019s greatest-ever footballer, needs both his first and surnames because friends and family know him as Diego, the sweet-natured, insecure street kid from Buenos Aires; and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","country":[52],"duration":[111],"rating":[74],"program":[],"class_list":["post-2501","films","type-films","status-publish","hentry","country-uk","duration-2h-10m","rating-r18"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/films"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}