FIFA has been rocked by accusations of corruption, fraud, racketeering, bribery and money laundering over the last week, with multiple members of football's governing body being arrested, and explosive revelations hitting the news on a daily basis.
Mercifully, new film United Passions has arrived to redress the balance, depicting football’s governing body as a noble, honourable and chaste organization, whose (now former) boss Sepp Blatter is a tireless crusader for truth, justice and the honourable ideals of the sport. The fact that FIFA contributed around £17m of the film’s £20m budget is of course purely coincidental to such a narrative approach.
United Passions hasn’t been released in the UK – perhaps unsurprisingly when you read this feature – so IGN had to import a DVD from France. We watched aghast, amazed at the talent the film managed to attract – with Gerard Depardieu as Jules Rimet, Sam Neill as Joao Havelange, and Tim Roth as Blatter himself, and incredulous that such propaganda is actually getting a release in the U.S. today.
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Mercifully, new film United Passions has arrived to redress the balance, depicting football’s governing body as a noble, honourable and chaste organization, whose (now former) boss Sepp Blatter is a tireless crusader for truth, justice and the honourable ideals of the sport. The fact that FIFA contributed around £17m of the film’s £20m budget is of course purely coincidental to such a narrative approach.
United Passions hasn’t been released in the UK – perhaps unsurprisingly when you read this feature – so IGN had to import a DVD from France. We watched aghast, amazed at the talent the film managed to attract – with Gerard Depardieu as Jules Rimet, Sam Neill as Joao Havelange, and Tim Roth as Blatter himself, and incredulous that such propaganda is actually getting a release in the U.S. today.
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