Corneliu Porumboiu – Infinite Football #Berlinale2018

February 20, 2018

Corneliu Porumboiu - Infinite Football #Berlinale2018 fredfilmradio

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Corneliu Porumboiu, director of the documentary Infinite Football.

Corneliu Porumboiu is here at the 68th edition of the Berlinale with a quite short and yet powerful genre-defying documentary: Infinite Football. Continuing his reflection on his favourite sport – the only one he likes – Mr. Porumboiu dissects the most popular game in the world through the Don Quixotesque theories of his friend Laurentiu Ginghina. The game must evolve from its simplicity: to become free, through more stasis.

Infinite Football: They talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurențiu Ginghină, it’s not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to zones and subteams, norms revised. In retrospect, he first realized that the rules of football were wrong when he was tackled during a game in his youth, in the summer holidays, on another pitch now covered in snow, but in Vaslui, not Bucharest. The tackle hit so hard it fractured his fibula, a year later his tibia broke too, on New Year’s Eve 1987, he had to walk home in the snow and no one helped him. Today he’s a local bureaucrat with an uninspiring job, it’s no wonder he prefers to talk about the game, his own version of it, to Porumboiu, his friend, the director, who’s always listening, asking questions, nearly always in frame. Ginghină’s monologues are so rich you might think someone wrote them in advance, they proceed from the same old subject, but never stay in one place. All roads lead to football, but all roads lead away from it too, to land ownership issues, to orange farms in Florida, to political utopia and the traces left by life, to version 2.0, 3.1, 4.7, to infinity.

To discover more about the documentary, click here.

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