Synopsis
Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, "Zidane" consists in a full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Cast
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Chas Bain Eric Bialas David M. Dunlap Stuart Howell Joaquín Manchado Frédéric Martial-Wetter Michael McDonough Giulio Pietromarchi Jorge Simonet Philip Sindall Gary Spratling Des Whelan Tim Wooster
Additional Photography
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Anna Lena Films Naflastrengir Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo ARTE France Cinéma Love Streams Productions Canal+ CNC CinéCinéma Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) MEDIA Programme of the European Union Artificial Eye Film Company
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Alternative Titles
Zidane, un retrato del siglo XXI, Zidane, un portrait du XXIème siècle, Zidane, portreto tou 21ou aiona, Zidane - Um Retrato do Século XXI, Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait, Zidane - Ein Porträt im 21. Jahrhundert, Zidane, un ritratto del XXI secolo, Zidane: Um Retrato do Séc. XXI, 齐达内：21世纪的肖像, 지단 - 21세기의 초상, Zidane. Un retrato del siglo XXI
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France
Cannes Film Festival
29 Sep 2006
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Iceland
Reykjavik International Film Festival
26 Jan 2007
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USA
Sundance Film Festival
15 Apr 2007
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USA
Wisconsin Film Festival
Theatrical
24 May 2006
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France
24 Oct 2008
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USA
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France
23 May 2006
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
24 May 2006
- Theatrical
Iceland
29 Sep 2006
- Premiere Reykjavik International Film Festival
USA
26 Jan 2007
- Premiere Sundance Film Festival
15 Apr 2007
- Premiere Wisconsin Film Festival
24 Oct 2008
- Theatrical New York City, New York
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It may be easy to dismiss Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait as a boring film depicting a game of soccer/football, but if you allow yourself to dive into the universe presented you are left with an incredible experience. April 23, 2005, was the day that Zidane and his back then Real Madrid teammates played in front of 80 000 people against Villareal. Who would have thought that this day would be forgotten like a walk in the park?
Not only does Douglas Gordon and his co-director Philippe Parreno ask us questions about time and importance of events, Zidane... is a psychological documentary where we emerge into the mind of a legendary football player. With an incredible use of sound…
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I’m a football tragic, and pretentious af, so this art film about Zinedine Zidane is right up my alley. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is co-directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, two visual artists who combine to give us a bracingly different perspective of something as ubiquitous as a game of football. The match in question is between Real Madrid and Villarreal, played out in front of a crowd of 80,000 back in 2005. There are some remarkable footballers on the field. In addition to Zidane there’s David Beckham, Ronaldo (the Brazilian), Pepe Reina, Iker Casillas, Raul, Diego Forlan, Michael Owen, Roberto Carlos and many others. And while each of them occasionally comes into view, Gordon and Parreno’s cameras…
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In 2015, I wrote a screenplay for what I thought could be the very first great narrative soccer movie and it was heavily, heavily inspired by this (along with DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT and A PROPHET).
Like many other potentially great movies, it never got made because we couldn't get a name actor to sign on, despite a legendary Oscar-winning producer and a healthy budget already in place. It was crushing and my first experience of a movie dying at the casting hurdle. I've since had many others. I still hope to make it some day.
Anyway, this is a masterpiece. One of the few pieces of art that's ever made me truly see something I look at all the time in a completely new light.
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“Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all.”
Football & film, my two passions, so when Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno created a film about football, needless to say, I was over the moon.
The film follows the narrative of a football match between Real Madrid and Villareal on April 23rd 2005, specially follows a man in his element, Zinedine Zidane.
The peculiar thing is, Zidane touches the ball a few times during the match, the rest is mannerisms, expressions, close ups and movement, this might sound not engaging at all, but the way is edited makes it engaging, atmospheric and beautiful to look at.
The atmospheric and electric soundtrack from Mogwai flows with every touch…
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the muffled sounds of TV through a wall. voices lapping ontop of one another and the bounce-back audio of cheers and drums against wall to yours. the sounds of children playing football outside. thick dunts against a wall or high pitched yells and the discovery of young swearing.
position is not just a place but the visage of the many paths that lie before us each second of every hour. each path a ghost until you enter one of them to bring it to life. each path creating another exponential dimension in an already filled shelf of dimensions.
foot to head. touch, kick, run, turn, read, burn.
head to foot. i am an individual in a team of individuals.… -
Part of My 1000th Film Challenge
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is an utterly useless piece of cinema. It’s not inept or poorly made but it has little to no respect for its audience and seemingly no purpose. Essentially Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is just medium to close-up footage of well-renowned footballer Zinedine Zidane throughout a full football match played in 2005. That’s it. The film is just footage of Zidane playing football for its entire runtime. Occasionally subtitles on screen provide us with quotes from Zidane but otherwise it is essentially just sports footage. I’ve always been a fan of football with my interest varying throughout the years from, at one point, being an avid watcher of every…
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Rien a foot, on nous laisse sur la touche, ca n’a pas matché. autant en sueur que Zizou, si je devais noté sur 100 je mettrai 5 comme son maillot. Insuportable (rapport au supporters), très en surface (de réparation), quel est le but ??
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Let me start by saying this, Zinedine Zidane is one of the finest footballers I have ever had the pleasure of watching. My love for football spans over forty years and "Zee-Zou" will remain as one of the greatest long after I'm gone.
This film however doesn't give even a glimpse of what made the great man tick. No back-story of his life or his beginnings in football,nothing. Instead we have a number of cameras that follow only Zidane during a La Liga match against Villarreal back in 2005 and although he shows those mercurial touches he was famed for,this was actually really boring. Maybe I wanted too much. I wanted to know more about the man,his influences, his motivations and why his temperament was suspect. I feel this was a missed opportunity to capture what Zinedine Zidane was really all about. Sorry Javier your review had stirred me into watching this but it never hit the mark. -
My first Douglas Gordon experience! Hard to calculate how much more unique this would have felt if I'd had it together to experience the novelty of up-close digital photography at sporting events almost 20 years ago. As a sheer act of media archaeology, I loved the early montage of steadily clearer and more intimate perceptions of the soccer field with each new generation of equipment, from the blurry transmissions of slightly watercolory athletes on antenna TV to the high-quality, up-close images and vantages possible in 2005. Now Zidane itself would almost certainly look like a now-superseded evolutionary step in the way we currently watch. Still, the movie retains visual interest and even offers a rewarding conceptual reframe: despite soccer's well-earned…
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I love a good Football film. There’s not been a ton of spectacular ones over the years, but plenty of easily enjoyable efforts. The best tap into various joys and thrills of the beautiful game, from playing to supporting to community. Yet the fact remains, football has always been a hard sport to bring to life on the screen. The game is a little too slow-paced, free flowing and wide open to translate well to film (the total opposite of American football in that regard). In many ways, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, is the purest football film I’ve ever seen. Certainly the most experimental, thought-provoking and daring when it comes purely to form. Documentary is probably the genre it…
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