United Passions
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | United Passions - La Légende du Football |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frédéric Auburtin |
| script | Frédéric Auburtin, Jean Paul-Delfino |
| production | Louisa Maurin |
| music | Jean-Pascal Beintus |
| camera | Inti Briones |
| cut | Olivier Gajan |
| occupation | |
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United Passions is a French feature film from 2014. It was directed by Frédéric Auburtin , who also wrote the screenplay with Jean-Paul Delfino . The film was shot in Switzerland, Azerbaijan, France and Brazil and screened for the first time on May 18, 2014 at the Cannes International Film Festival . The film has been criticized, among other things, for the fact that Sepp Blatter had pre-financed the film with £ 16 million , and is considered one of the worst films of all time due to its content and the lack of audience participation.
action
The film starts with the story of a group of young enthusiasts who, in order to break England's monopoly on football , founded the international football association FIFA in Paris in 1904 . The following, extremely eventful football century is told from the perspectives of Jules Rimet , João Havelange and Sepp Blatter .
background
The film was released in American cinemas in June 2015 and, coinciding with the FIFA corruption scandal in 2015, grossed just 918 dollars in ten cinemas on the opening weekend. It undercut the grossing results of the film I Kissed A Vampire (2012: 1,380 dollars) and is therefore considered the film with the worst grossing of films that have been released in at least ten US cinemas.
The film received very bad reviews. The rating aggregator Metacritic determined an average rating of only 1%, RottenTomatoes recorded 0% positive reviews. In June 2015, the film took 29th place in the list of the worst films of all time in the IMDb with an average rating of 2.1. The Guardian rated the film with one of five possible stars and criticized it as "pure propaganda" and "cinematic excrement" . Even The Independent tears the film, calling it "ridiculous bad" .
Actor Tim Roth distanced himself from United Passions even before the theatrical release and apologized for his involvement.
The director of the film, Frédéric Auburtin, also publicly regretted his work. He sees himself as a "victim of the game".
FIFA had suggested Men of Legend as the title . However, director Auburtin dismissed that as nonsense.
Web links
- United Passions in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Dan Barry: FIFA Film: An Epic Fantasy . Reviewed in The New York Times (online edition) June 1, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charles Sale: UEFA critics hit out at Sepp Blatter's £ 16m FIFA history film United Passions . Daily Mail . Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ Finally! The FIFA movie 'United Passions' debuts at Cannes . Archived from the original on June 14, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ Tony Manfred: The Trailer For FIFA's $ 27-Million Propaganda Film Feels Like A Parody . Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ Björn Becher: FIFA film "United Passions" has the worst result ever at the US box office. In: filmstarts.de , June 19, 2015.
- ↑ Metascore United Passions on Metacritic.com, accessed June 8, 2015
- ↑ United Passions In: RottenTomatoes (English).
- ↑ Bottom 100 on IMDb.com, accessed June 15, 2015
- ↑ Jordan Hoffman: United Passions review - Fifa propaganda is pure cinematic excrement. In: The Guardian , June 4, 2015.
- ↑ Tim Walker: United Passions, film review: Fifa reaches a new low with laughably awful film about its history. In: The Independent , June 6, 2015 (English).
- ^ Moritz Gutscher: Empty halls for United Passions. In: fanzeit.de , June 8, 2015.
- ↑ FIFA director calls his own film a "disaster" In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 18, 2015.
