Cannes Critics' Week-winning comedy drama from Gabriel Abrantes nand Daniel Schmidt about a disgraced soccer player searching for purpose.
"Diamantino, the...
Cannes Critics' Week-winning comedy drama from Gabriel Abrantes nand Daniel Schmidt about a disgraced soccer player searching for purpose.
"Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, and the hunt for the source of genius." (Cannes Film Festival)
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87 %71 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
58 %59 reviewsAudience score rating
""Love has reasons that even reason can't understand," muses Diamantino in voiceover at one point; so does this lovably ludicrous film."
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Variety
Variety"There might be some cult potential in these Pythonesque larks but it is hard to discern where."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Love it or hate it, this title will surely be hotly debated wherever it goes, and that's just based on the story it contains, not the outstanding way in which everything has been imagined, assembled and played."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterDiamantino | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize, 2018 Cannes Film Festival
- Rating
- M, Violence, offensive language & nudity
- Runtime
- 92
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- Portugal, France, Brazil
