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This biopic is a documentary with many scenes of Zico and other people related to him played by actors. Zico's path in football is amazing, and this movie, although not a failure, is clearly very below the potential of such story. Both the documentary parts and the narrative ones have many ups and downs. The footage of matches is always amazing, but the interviews, on one hand, bring some important stories, and one the other hand include some interviewees who are very hard to understand why the hell producers have included them. The acted scenes also have nice moments, which do help spectators to become closer to the events, but also quite cheesy ones. The script is also unbalanced, taking too much time sometimes in some issues, and being shallow or in a hurry when it comes to other issues. To resume, it is not a great disappointment, as there is something to be interested in, but it is far from the biographic documentary great Zico deserves.

I loved innovative and sensitive documentary 'Nós que aqui estamos por vós esperamos'. It is easily noticeable that the present low-budget experimental surrealist movie supposedly (at least, I suppose) about consumer society was made by the very same same filmmaker, Marcelo Mazagão, with his unique edition style and fascination by old pictures. Anyway, despite some very good ideas, they are too much disconnected and even undevelopped. Outcome is mostly pretentious, shallow, and sometimes arbitrary and aleatory, besides having serious problems such as prejudices (against fat people, Asiatic...) and moralism. It is also boring and tiring, seeming a short film which was stretched into a feature one.

It is a colourful Soviet movie held in Moldova, exploring the lives of the "gypsies" (Roma) in their traveller communities and their relations with other people in Bessarabia, Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Art direction is quite beautiful, and acting is also very good, besides the lovely soundtrack full of Roma songs. More than the "love story" (not really love, much more a combination of sexual interest and pride) of Loiko Zobar and Radda, I liked a lot them separatedly. Firstly, Grigore Grigoriu's Zobar's adventures as a horse thief are engaging and amusing. Above that, I must highlight that Svetlana Toma's acting presence, full of self-confidence and debauch laugh, besides the actress's beauty, do impose a presence which convinces spectator that Radda is able to make men, such as Zobar and also nobleman Antol Siladi, become desperate, insane, impulsive, vulnerable. I did not appreciate very much the melodramatic ending, although it was actually already in the original Maxim Gorki's story Makar Chudra, which inspired the movie. The film is very nice and remarkable, anyway.