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  • 2018
  • TV-PG
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2018
  • TV-PG
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 10 m

Summary After fracturing his fibula in a 1987 game, former Romanian soccer star and current bureaucrat Laurențiu Ginghină now dreams of radically revising his beloved sport’s rules to reduce injuries and, in turn, revolutionize it. With Infinite Football, Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu has crafted a hilarious, typically incisive doc...

Directed By: Corneliu Porumboiu

Written By: Corneliu Porumboiu

  • 2018
  • TV-PG
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2018
  • TV-PG
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 10 m

Infinite Football

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary After fracturing his fibula in a 1987 game, former Romanian soccer star and current bureaucrat Laurențiu Ginghină now dreams of radically revising his beloved sport’s rules to reduce injuries and, in turn, revolutionize it. With Infinite Football, Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu has crafted a hilarious, typically incisive doc...

Directed By: Corneliu Porumboiu

Written By: Corneliu Porumboiu

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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100
Nov 6, 2018
Porumboiu cinematically constructs—both through the patient, subtly but decisively shaped interviews and the cannily gradual editing—a life story that engages, at crucial points of contact, with the political history of his times and that reflects aspirations and inspirations that are themselves of a historic power.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
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Nov 9, 2018
Infinite Football is as casual as a conversation with a stranger that ends up going for more than hour — the kind where just by being attentive and sporadically asking questions, you take away someone’s life story, and understand the one passion they could talk about on end.
By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW
83
One of the most fascinating things about Infinite Football is that Porumboiu never feels the need to feed his pal any rope in order to get these moments on camera. The two men are close and the director pointedly takes the time to let us in on his friend’s life.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 4, 2019
Even if the number of ideas he has to improve the sport don’t quite live up to the title of Infinite Football, Corneliu Porumboiu’s documentary about Ginghina, there certainly are a lot. The fact that they’re all either unworkable, ridiculous, or both simply adds to the charm of this extremely low-key film.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
70
[Ginghină's] endlessly evolving ideas for revolutionizing football are not a blueprint for a real-world solution at all. Instead they represent that intensely relatable and human place inside, where any of us, however small our lives and crushed our ambitions, can be limitless, unhobbled by injury, unfettered by ordinariness, unbounded by physics: infinite.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
60
Infinite Football has moments of nicely deadpan humor and some deft little touches of insight along the way courtesy of Porumboiu's offbeat protagonist — but major league it certainly is not.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
50
It does cross your mind that this might all be some jolly wheeze of a mockumentary with Ginghină as a David Brent figure but apparently it is all to be taken seriously.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 42 Km Film
Release Date Nov 9, 2018
Duration 1 h 10 m
Rating TV-PG
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Website https://www.facebook.com/Fotbal-Infinit-1600166446737094/
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Awards

Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Lucca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Transilvania International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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