Sunday Ball

A happy marriage of rudimentary conditions and highly sophisticated filmmaking ...
-- Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times

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Sunday Ball

Eryk Rocha’s Sunday Ball focuses on a 14-team annual soccer championship among favela teams in Rio de Janeiro. Set in the Sampaio neighborhood (close to the Maracanã Stadium, where the 2014 World Cup final was held), the film brings audiences up-close to a final match between two rival teams. By rejecting the talking-heads approach and embracing the rhythms of the game, Sunday Ball offers a kinetic and utterly absorbing cinematic experience.
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary, Sport
Runtime
71
Language
Portuguese
Director
Eryk Rocha
FEATURED REVIEW
Jay Weissberg, Variety

Labeling Eryk Rocha’s terrific “Sunday Ball” a sports documentary, because it focuses on soccer, is like calling “Grey Gardens” a madwomen documentary for featuring a couple of loonies. Stunningly shot and marvelously edited to capture the rhythms of the game, the pic transcends its subject much in ...

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