A Hollywood studio is making a #FILM about Pele
▻http://africasacountry.com/hollywood-film-making-film-about-pele
Dramatic films about #football–with few exceptions, say “Sixty Six” or “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation“– are usually a bust. It seems hard to recreate on-field action or to make connections to larger themes about the nation, identity politics, institutional violence, capitalism or the romance of the beautiful game. And nowadays professional footballers’ lives […]
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