A biographical documentary about the Argentine footballer's period at Napoli.
The footage Kapadia slices together makes it clear to see why Maradona's flaws were all too easy to overlook. The frenetic, invigorating beauty of one man’s skill renders us as captivated and helpless as any defender he faced on the pitch.
Kapadia gives 110 per cent, but doesn’t quite hit the target.
The public and private faces of the Argentinian striker are sharply contrasted in a revealing documentary from the director of Senna.
The city where Diego Maradona rose from the dead.
Diego Maradona film director Asif Kapadia: 'We found half the footage in a trunk in Buenos Aires'.
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