It’s been done before — Hellmuth Costard focused solely on George Best playing against Coventry in his 1971 avant-garde offering, Football Like Never Before. But 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.
What’s so striking about this compelling collage is Zizou’s expressionless concentration, which seems to isolate him from his Real Madrid team-mates. And it’s this emotional control that makes his involvement in a penalty-area scrum so surprising and his dispatch to the dressing-room so iconically tragic. Definitely one for footie fans, but probably not for the uninitiated.