Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

You learn little by way of hard facts about the adored French soccer star and famous head-butter Zinedine Zidane in the formalist exercise that bears his name.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 24, 2008

He's set apart not only as the piece's sole subject but because he's hyper-alert, continually responding to invisible forces, raptly focused on events beyond the frame.

| Oct 22, 2008

An overblown nearly-real-time documentary-cum-"art installation."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2008

Alternately hypnotic and irksome.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2007

Strangely enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2006

It mesmerises yet it also bores. It's a fascinating experiment and a frustrating film.

| Oct 28, 2006

This 17-camera portrait of the artist as an ageing star still captures the magnetism and balletic genius of a player whose reputation will surely survive the naysaying of holier-than-thou commentators following his World Cup 2006 dismissal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2006

Zidane's charisma accumulates and the film becomes a hypnotic experience to which you must simply abandon yourself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2006

The World Cup-winning god of French soccer, Zinedine Zidane, is brought crashing to the ground in Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon's ill-conceived documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.

Full Review | May 26, 2006

For that narrow cross section of auds passionate about soccer and experimental cinema, docu Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait will rep a masterpiece; for everyone else, pleasure will vary.

Full Review | May 25, 2006