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This film was released grab Friday Twentyfourth February 2017.
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Director: Book Gordon
90 mins, 2016, UK, Digital
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He was football’s first rock and roll star – a handsome, charismatic Belfast boy who could thrill and excite the crowds with every turn of the ball. Yet George Best was also the lead in his own Shakespearean tragedy; a flawed genius, brought down by drink, temptation and depression. In this 30 for 30 documentary jointly presented by ESPN Films, the BBC and Northern Ireland Screen, director Daniel Gordon (Hillsborough) recounts the tale of this beloved but be-devilled superstar with riveting, evocative footage and testimony by those who knew him at his best—and worst. There’s a lot of ground to cover in Best’s short life—from his electrifying debut with Manchester United at the tender age of 17, through the glory years that United won the 1968 European Cup, his adventures in the North American Soccer League, not to mention his time spent romancing the world's most beautiful, intoxicating women. Gordon tells Best’s story with a skill worthy of the man himself. The film draws you into the drama that surrounded Best and makes you understand just why an estimated quarter of a million people lined the route of his funeral cortege to mourn his tragic passing.
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George Best: All by Himself
A tragedy in microcosm
George Best was the most naturally gifted footballer of his generation. But his was also a life that peaked young, as the pressures of celebrity led him into alcholism, an early retreat from top flight football, an subsequent story that included wife-beating, a prison sentence for drunk driving, and a liver transplant, and finally an early death. This documentary focuses mainly on his playing career, but nonetheless feels weighed down by sadness from the very beginning: Best was, by all accounts, a genuinely nice young lad, but one who could never cope with his extraordinary gifts. One has to say that the modern press is a terrifying institution, and, as with many others who have ultimately died from their demons, one gets a sense that a life lived in perpetual public view is a near impossible one to live. One also gets the sense, however, that in a fundamental sense, Best gave up trying (or at least was utterly defeated) by at a relatively young age. Our sports stats carry so many of our hopes and dreams; but some cannot manage it. For all his genius, this is not a happy tale, although it's well-told, sympathetic but never hiding from the grim truth.
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