Asif Kapadia stitches 500 hours of unseen footage into a portrait of Diego Maradona at his peak and his unmaking — arriving in Naples a god, leaving seven years later a fugitive. The film treats the Camorra, the cocaine and the two World Cup goals as the same story: a man whose talent was so vast it allowed everyone around him to consume him without limits.
Kapadia uses only archival footage to track Maradona's seven years at Napoli — sainthood, cocaine, Camorra, the goal of the century, all in the same frame. The most honest portrait we have of how the game eats its gods.
