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"Something magical happened when I played." Kino Lorber has debuted an official Us trailer for the wacky, brilliant, one-of-a-kind "high camp" indie comedy Diamantino, from directors Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt. This Portuguese film premiered in the Critics' Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and stopped by a bunch of major film festivals throughout the film. "Tabu's Carloto Cotta gives the finest comic performance in recent memory as the dimwitted Portuguese soccer superstar of the title, a burlesqued version of Cristiano Ronaldo, swept up in a complicated comic conundrum involving the refugee crisis, Secret Service skullduggery, mad science genetic modification, and a right-wing anti-EU conspiracy." This is easily one of the most creative, original, and hilarious films I saw last year and I definitely recommend it - a "high-camp" international discovery that will be a cult classic very soon. Also stars Cleo Tavares, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira,...

Review by Peter BelsitoPortuguese soccer icon Diamantino is the most famous person in the world.

So the film begins. And gets crazier as it moves along but in a very funny way.

After blowing his team’s chances at the 2018 World Cup, Portuguese soccer icon Diamantino retreats in shame to his amazing palatial home. Bereft of purpose, confused and desperate to atone for his act of national humiliation, he is convinced to adopt an African refugee youth in a naive attempt to reinject meaning into his shattered life.

While awaiting the arrival of his new son, he becomes the unwitting victim of a government tax investigation, a neo-fascist plot to seize power, and the daily machinations of his cartoonishly villainous twin sisters.

It doesn’t happen that often that when you see something that takes you completely by surprise.

Diamantino, from the directorial duo of Gabriel Abrantes from Portugal and U.

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