Like their first love, every football fan remembers the first World Cup that they obsessed over. Mine was the 1982 one in Spain. I memorized every single group, all the scores, watched taped matches over and over again. And it was a brilliant World Cup too (not that I’m biased in any way). There was the last truely creative Brazil team with Zico, Elder, Socrates. There was the England team which scored the fastest goal in World Cup history against France. There was young Maradona, who wasn’t quite ready to conquer the world singlehandedly just yet.
And then there was the epic semi final between France and West Germany – one of my favorite matches of all time – with so much beauty (mostly from France) and ugliness (all from Harald Schumacher). Here is a fantastic piece about that match in The Guardian.
At the end, it comes down to a dramatic penalty shootout. This short film, “Refait” is a simply brilliant shot-by-shot reconstruction of the last 15 mins of the match.
Here is the description:
“‘Refait’ is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments.
The soundtrack is made up of the original commentaries mixed with interviews of the audience recorded during the shooting.”
Refait from Pied La Biche on Vimeo.
