BAFTA Best Documentary 2020. 500 hours unseen footage. Kapadia's third genius doc. Shakespearean tragedy.
Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona documentary uses 500 hours of previously unseen personal footage to construct the most intimate portrait of a genius and its self-destruction in football documentary history. Kapadia (director of Amy and Senna) frames Maradona's Napoli years (1984–91) as a Shakespearean tragedy — the golden god who became addicted to cocaine and the attention of the Camorra. The film won the BAFTA for Best Documentary in 2020. Its editing — particularly the sequence contrasting his 1986 World Cup heroics with his growing addiction — is considered some of the finest documentary filmmaking of the decade.

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