A documentary on Diego Maradona's
heady Napoli years including two scudetti and the 1986 World Cup
win in 1986 premiered at Cannes Monday wowing critics and public
alike.
Oscar winning British director Asif Kapadia's doc, titled
simply Diego Maradona, is based on 500 hours of previously
unseen footage by two cameramen who followed him in his new
career in Naples as "new gladiator", the filmmaker said.
"Faced with some of his goals people said 'Maradona didn't
score them, God did," he said.
The film spans July 5, 1984, when Napoli bought Maradona
risking bankruptcy, through the two glorious Serie titles in
1987 and 1990, and struggles with cocaine, relations with the
Camorra, children born out of his marriage to Claudia, a raft of
scandals, wiretaps and prostitutes.
It ends on the "night of mistakes" when Maradona led
Argentina past Italy in the World Cup semifinals at the San
Paolo, with most Neapolitan fans rooting for the Pibe de Oro
rather than their country.
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