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    'Diego Maradona' is the newest documentary by Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2019 4 minutes

    CANNES, France - It's not as if master documentarian Asif Kapadia, whose films have profiled Formula One legend Ayrton Senna and revered singer Amy Winehouse, is unfamiliar with famous folk. But there is fame, and there is Diego Maradona.

    In his prime the greatest, most celebrated and most controversial player in the world's most popular sport, someone whose off-the-field excesses were as well known as his soccer wizardry gaining the 1986 World Cup for Argentina, Maradona has been both worshiped and attacked to an astonishing degree.

    "How can you be treated like a god," Kapadia asks, considering it in a quiet corner of a beachside restaurant,

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