That’s Zlatan as in Zlatan Ibrahimović, the celebrity Swedish striker whose troubled childhood in a tricky working-class neighbourhood of Malmö is dramatised right here. The cocky underprivileged child saved from (probably) a lifetime of crime by soccer; it sounds just like the cheesiest sports activities film ever. And but director Jens Sjögren, extra taken with what occurs off the pitch, dodges the boring cliches. His sympathetic, realist movie is a compelling watch.
The movie relies on Ibrahimović’s autobiography, co-authored with the Swedish author David Lagercrantz. Dominic Andersson Bajraktati performs 11-year-old Zlatan, who's disruptive at school and bad-tempered on the pitch. What quickly turns into clear is that every one this behaviour is the communication of a child who feels insufficient, alone and infrequently hungry. He’s enjoying soccer with middle-class boys who put on the best soccer boots, their dads cheering from the sidelines. Zlatan’s mother and father divorced when he was little. His dad, Bosnian caretaker Šefik (Cedomir Glisovic), is a brooder who drinks closely, and his exhausted mum Jurka (Merima Dizdarevic) is emotionally unavailable; each characters are written with actual emotional generosity.
Granit Rushiti is Zlatan aged 17 throughout an important second when he may make the Malmö first group or give up soccer altogether. Rushiti additionally performs Zlatan just a few years on, in his early 20s, now a promising younger striker for Ajax – the place racist information reporting refers to him as a “lazy immigrant”. There are some insightful insider-y scenes as his agent negotiates a big-time take care of Juventus.
What works greatest is that I Am Zlatan doesn’t push the triumph-over-adversity sports-movie method. What retains Ibrahimović on the straight and slender? Survival intuition? His ardour and God-given expertise? The movie entertains a darker risk that he channelled his anger, that soccer success meant revenge in opposition to those that wrote him off.
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