Review by Peter BelsitoPortuguese soccer icon Diamantino is the most famous person in the world.
So the film begins. And gets crazier as it moves along but in a very funny way.
After blowing his team’s chances at the 2018 World Cup, Portuguese soccer icon Diamantino retreats in shame to his amazing palatial home. Bereft of purpose, confused and desperate to atone for his act of national humiliation, he is convinced to adopt an African refugee youth in a naive attempt to reinject meaning into his shattered life.
While awaiting the arrival of his new son, he becomes the unwitting victim of a government tax investigation, a neo-fascist plot to seize power, and the daily machinations of his cartoonishly villainous twin sisters.
It doesn’t happen that often that when you see something that takes you completely by surprise.
Diamantino, from the directorial duo of Gabriel Abrantes from Portugal and U.
So the film begins. And gets crazier as it moves along but in a very funny way.
After blowing his team’s chances at the 2018 World Cup, Portuguese soccer icon Diamantino retreats in shame to his amazing palatial home. Bereft of purpose, confused and desperate to atone for his act of national humiliation, he is convinced to adopt an African refugee youth in a naive attempt to reinject meaning into his shattered life.
While awaiting the arrival of his new son, he becomes the unwitting victim of a government tax investigation, a neo-fascist plot to seize power, and the daily machinations of his cartoonishly villainous twin sisters.
It doesn’t happen that often that when you see something that takes you completely by surprise.
Diamantino, from the directorial duo of Gabriel Abrantes from Portugal and U.
- 1/20/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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