Diamantino: This delightfully demented cult-film-in-waiting is Zoolander meets Zidane GlobeArts
The film starts to make a perfect sort of nonsense-sense, perfectly in line with the cult-friendly sensibilities of TIFF’s after-dark program.at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September, I was genuinely puzzled as to why this sports film, of all things, was acting as that year’s Midnight Madness closer.
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s feature opens on a Portuguese soccer star in the middle of a World Cup match, all the country’s eyes on the Ronaldo-esque hunk. But then a bunch of giant puppies appear to the title character in a dreamy haze, his evil twin sisters start to conspire against him, a genetic engineer starts messing around with clown fish DNA, a pair of lesbian-lover cops hatch a plan involving a nun’s habit and offshore bank accounts.
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