Cast : Laurenţiu Ginghină, Corneliu Porumboiu
2018 / documentary / original title : Fotbal Infinit / 70’ / Color / status : completed / long feature-film / International collections
“Last fall, a good childhood friend of mine, Florin, told me that his brother, Laurențiu, invented a new sport by changing the rules of the football game. One month later I went to my hometown, Vaslui, with a small film crew, to learn more about the new sport …”
Production: 42 Km Film
Press
“Another playful exploration of the titular sport’s philosophical-figurative potential...Corneliu Porumboiu’s portrait of his eccentric childhood friend with big dreams of reinventing soccer is hilarious, heartbreaking and pleasingly subtle”
Sight & Sound
“Infinite Football has moments of nicely deadpan humor and some deft little touches of insight along the way courtesy of Porumboiu's offbeat protagonist”
The Hollywood Reporter
“Edited perfectly into a series of neatly unified and unpredictable punch lines, Infinite Football is often laugh-out-loud funny, if you watch it with the right crowd… The purest and funniest moments I have seen in any film at Berlinale…”
Screen Anarchy
