Infinite Football/ Fotbal infinit,
Corneliu Porumboiu`s latest film will be released in the Romanian cinemas starting with March 9, after its
world release in Berlin, where it enjoyed the critics` appreciation. The film which presents a unique approach of the football game and “the film`s timely arrival in the year of a World Cup” should be taken into account, Hollywood Reporter wrote.
Everything in the film happens in the context in which an important figure of the world football, Marco van Basten, as the FIFA technical director, militates, among other things, to change some rules: to give up the yellow cards, the penalties in the shootout and the offside rule.
The main character, Laurențiu Ginghină, an administrative clerk at the Vaslui Mayor House, has been concerned for more than 30 years with revolutionizing the rules of the football game. Why is the field rectangular? Should the players be allowed to run the entire field? At the same time, the director raises the ante and asks himself if there is any intimate connection between football and life.
“I realized that behind Laurențiu`s stories and questions, there is a conflict between law and freedom, a theme I`ve always been interested in”, Corneliu Porumboiu confesses. He also plays in the film: “I am a sort of a referee. The decision to be in the film was a functional one, because I couldn`t leave the character alone. I interfered only where I was needed.”, the director added.
After the Berlin screening, more publications, like The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter or Screen Anarchy wrote about Porumboiu`s latest production.
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Infinite Football has moments of nicely deadpan humor and some deft little touches of insight along the way courtesy of Porumboiu`s offbeat protagonist” Hollywood Reporter says, while Screen Anarchy writes that Porumboiu`s film “has perhaps the purest and funniest moments I have seen in any film at Berlinale so far this year” and Sight&Sound says that the film is “hilarious, heartbreaking and pleasantly subtle”.
Infinite Football is Corneliu Porumboiu`s second film about football, after
The Second Game/Al doilea joc, which presented a dialogue between the director and his father, the international football referee Adrian Porumboiu, which touched political issues as well.
The film can be watched in Bucharest - Cinema Elvire Popesco, Cinema Muzeul Țăranului, Cinemateca Union, cinemateca Eforie, Cluj - Cinema Victoria, Vaslui Cinema Cityplex (since March 16), Bârlad Cinema Cityplex (since March, 16), Pitești - Cinema Trivale, Târgu Mureș - Cinema Arta, Slobozia – Casa de Cultură (since March 10), Brașov - cinemateca Patria (since March 23).
The complete list of the cinemas can be found on the
Voodoo Films website.
Infinite Football is distributed by Voodoo Films.
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