Baggio: The Divine Ponytail

This is personal, I'm a big fan of Baggio because my dad was his biggest fan. The film was released on the day that my dad would have been celebrating one more anniversary, if he didn't pass away unexpectedly last year. I also am a fan of films with short durations.

However, to talk about Baggio and to make a biography, you need between 2.5 and 3 hours to develop the person and the player. Unfortunately, the film feels like an appetiser. What it does, does well, but there are so many chronological jumps and so many important moments out of it (not even a minute with Milan and Juve, the most important clubs on his career), that it feels totally incomplete.

If you wanted to make a short film about Baggio, you should focused only on a specific time (maybe the WC94, maybe his time after that WC, maybe the time before), but 90 minutes is not enough for the man, and even less for the player. Watching the film, casuals will never understand why Baggio is one of the best ever, the film doesn't show anything about the player, what he achieved (speak barely about it).

It's sad because there was potential here. The actors do a great job, the colours and cinematography is interesting, but unfortunately everything seems so rushed that we don't have even time to be emotional during the most dramatic moments.