Zidane

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is doing a limited screening of the this film, and I'm really excited about it. Mogwai recorded the soundtrack, and the film is presented more as a piece of art, or study of human athleticism than a "movie".
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.


If you're in San Francisco, or can be, see it.
I read that it may not be shown in the theatre again for a while.

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
YBCA Screening Room
701 Mission St. at Third
San Francisco, CA

Thu 2/7/2008 7:30 pm Call for availability
Wed 2/13/2008 7:30 pm
Fri 2/15/2008 7:30 pm
Sat 2/16/2008 2:00 pm
Sat 2/16/2008 4:00 pm
Sat 2/16/2008 7:30 pm
Sat 2/16/2008 9:30 pm

Zidane,A 21st-Century Portrait
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
By Douglas Gordon & Philip Parreno

EXTENDED RUN by overwhelming demand! Additional screenings on Feb 13, 15 & 16.

A startlingly original and audacious portrait of one of the greatest players in the history of soccer, Zinédine Zidane. Seventeen synchronized cameras were used, each focusing on Zidane in real time, from the first kick of the ball to the moment he was given a red card and ejected from the game. The match, between Real Madrid (Zidane's team) and Villarreal, was played on April 23, 2005 and was witnessed by eighty thousand screaming fans.

Zidane himself recounts, in voice-over, what he can and cannot remember from his matches. Magnificently edited and accompanied by a majestic score from Scottish rock heroes Mogwai, this is perhaps the best sports films ever made, but also one of the finest studies of man in the workplace, an ode to the loneliness of the athlete and the poise and resilience of the human body. (2006, 92 min, 35mm)