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- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
Summary This documentary feature tells the story of iconic footballer Pelé, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he attained. As well as unprecedented interview access to Pelé, the film includes archive footage and interviews with legendary former team-mates including Zagallo, Jairzinho and Rivellino. The story looks back at the 12-y...
- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
Pelé
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4.9
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Summary This documentary feature tells the story of iconic footballer Pelé, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he attained. As well as unprecedented interview access to Pelé, the film includes archive footage and interviews with legendary former team-mates including Zagallo, Jairzinho and Rivellino. The story looks back at the 12-y...
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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83% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
61
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
83% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Pelé is a terrific examination of the player, the man and his status in recent Brazilian history. It’s about his astonishing skill, his World Cup victories and defeats, and his celebrity. But at its core it’s about how Pele legitimized the dictatorship that governed Brazil during the later portion of his career.
Nicholas and Tryhorn’s new film for Netflix, though plenty laudatory, presents a contemplative Pelé that appears human after all.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
4.9
43% Positive
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29% Mixed
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
4.9
43% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
29% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
29% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Como documental deportivo se apega al molde, narrando con palabras propias así como de periodistas, familia y compañeros de equipo sus raíces, días de gloria, el cómo o porque estuvo cerca de renunciar, su glorioso retiro y el cómo se volvió estandarte de una dictadura. Aquellos que gusten del fútbol sentirán que el metraje pasa como agua entre los dedos.
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I did yearn to see more of his talents in action; his header goal in that year’s Italy final feels cosmically liberating. But however conventional as a whole, the movie feels troubled by the traumas of Pelé’s heyday.
As much as Pelé inspired love and awe among his fans, this polished and well-intentioned biography doesn’t quite do the same.
This valedictory film allows sober recognition for all that he did.
To see him wrestle with his own past, the pressure of a whole country’s dreams, and the relief of making them come true, is occasionally riveting, but it’s also what makes Pelé all the more a missed opportunity for a sharper portrait.
(Mauro Lanari)
Kevin Macdonald debuted as a documentary filmmaker and to some extent returns to his own roots by producing this biopic on Pelé for Netflix. Apparently less exciting than the other biopic directed in 2016 by the Zimbalist brothers, in reality the approach is the most distant imaginable but also necessary for its complementarity.
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A rather boring documentary. Also skipping a lot of grou matches at world cups and skipping a lot of Pele's life so don't buy the discription saying that it tells the "story of Pele's life."
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Production Company
Pitch Productions
Release Date Feb 23, 2021
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating TV-14
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Awards
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination