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Messi (2014 film)

Messi is a 2014 documentary film directed by Álex de la Iglesia. The film explores the rise of Argentine football player Lionel Messi who, at the time of the film's release, played for FC Barcelona.


Messi
Theatrical release poster
Álex de la Iglesia
Jorge ValdanoJorge Valdano Sáenz de Ugarte
Jaume Roures
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Lionel Messi
Andrés Iniesta
Gerard Piqué
Jorge Valdano
Johan Cruyff
César Luis Menotti
Jamal Mahdi Alhusseiny
Kiko de la Rica
Domingo González
Joan Valent
Mediapro
Warner Bros. Pictures
27 August 2014 (2014-08-27) (Venice Film Festival)
1 January 2015 (2015-01-01)
93 minutes
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Spanish
English (subtitles)
€3 million
$33,607

Messi is a 2014 documentary film directed by Álex de la Iglesia. The film explores the rise of Argentine football player Lionel Messi who, at the time of the film's release, played for FC Barcelona.

The film focuses on Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, from his youth in Rosario to becoming one of the world's greatest players at FC Barcelona, and features Jorge Valdano discussing the qualities of Messi with Barcelona legend Johan Cruyff and former Argentina manager César Luis Menotti. In making the film, Iglesia said he was influenced by Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose. The film was produced by Mediapro and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

After the film's premiere during the Venice Film Festival in 2014, Andrew Barker of Variety wrote that "the film is well shot and very briskly edited" and praised the choice to include figures throughout Messi's career and to not include Messi himself, but complained that they "never interact in particularly interesting ways" and also highlighted the lack of insight into his character.

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