The rise and fall of Diego Maradona may today seem like a stock tale of rags to riches to ruin. But Maradona wasn’t just any athlete—he’s one of the greatest soccer players of all time. And this visceral documentary, directed by Asif Kapadia, doesn’t clutter the telling with cutaways to talking heads. Instead, the comments lace the audio, and our understanding of Maradona’s professional and public life unfolds in grainy footage, as well as still photography. We are thrust into the middle of his crowded, sweaty, bumpy life—the claustrophobic nature of celebrity in our face. The majority of the documentary follows Maradona’s years playing in Naples, where locals hung pictures of him in their homes next to Jesus. This immature man, born in the slums of Argentina, the sole supporter of his family from the time he was 15 years old, first delighted in his fame but was soon undone by it. His fall from grace, which was also caused by his growing addiction to cocaine, is brutal and without remorse. As his trainer Fernando Signorini says, “Diego has had a life both tremendous and terrible.” In Naples, Diego was a rebel, cheat, hero, god, and ultimately, a disgrace.
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