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Diamantino

2018

Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira, Filipe Vargas, Margarida Moreira ...

5.6

547

Comedy. Sci-Fi. Fantasy 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"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."	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"One of the year's most singular debuts with this winningly bizarre, genre-melding political satire (...) [A] lovably ludicrous film."	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"There are stray laughs among the silliness, but much of what transpires is tiresome (...) The film has a certain visual allure"	NEU
United States	Rafael Motamayor Bloody Disgusting	"A bonkers and ambitious political allegory for the times we live in, one that is also incredibly funny and inventive (...) An impressive feature debut (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"Abrantes and Schmidt are nothing if not ambitious and have jam-packed this screenplay with enough conspiracy, femme fatales, and bio-domes to suggest Ian Fleming was on board as script supervisor"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Wildly entertaining (...) One of the year's great films (...) Its naïvete is essential to its charm; it pierces through all the zaniness in order to provide some kind of guiding light"	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"The film is fun, but, for all its inventiveness, it’s a bit tame, with its nice-but-dim hero. But 'Diamantino' is never dull (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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