How Maradona devoured Diego

Go through the screens a documentary film about the brilliance and the fall of Maradona that nobody should miss. Work of Asif Kapadia, who already owes a magnificent similar piece on Ayrton Senna, is a documentary of magnificent rhythm, without another voice in off that testimonies well chosen and sincere, the main one of them the one of the own Maradona, of which there are confessions awesome Magnificent images of football that remind us of the priceless beauty of his game, and also of what is not football, some intimate and endearing, other sordid, on the arm of Carmine Giuliano, the man of the Camorra who handled him.

There are many people who love him and who understand him, and who assisted impotently, like himself, to his loss of contact with reality, to his degradation. His sister, his wife, his physical trainer, Signorini, a journalist of great confidence, Daniel Arcucci ... He himself has no qualms about how, from a time of stay in Naples, he lived a life of pure crap Sunday, after the match (with a short step home, to greet her two girls), until Wednesday. From Thursday onwards he reactivated himself as a footballer and prepared for the next game, which played unfailingly well.

Menotti said in his day, with his characteristic flair, that Maradona was like a cat that someone climbed a tree and did not know how to get off. Signorini offers another very good image: there was a Diego, a charming boy, and a Maradona, mythical character more and more lost. They alternated, but with time Maradona devoured Diego, like Mister Hyde to Doctor Jekyll. This is what this film tells us, a perfect portrait of a life that started happily and ended up tormented when, as the sister says, "coca bent her arm". All the answers to all the questions about the fall of Maradona are there. A work of art and a great journalism exercise.