A film by Teodora Ana Mihai
With: Matteo Simoni, Violet Braeckman, Josse De Pauw, Ben Segers, Fabrizio Rongione, Bobby Schofield, Jeroen Van der Ven, Dominique Dauwe, Jonathan Sawdon, Emanuela Ponzano
When 39 people are killed prior to the European Cup at the Brussels Heysel stadium in 1985, the mayor’s daughter and an Italian journalist are torn between their professional assignments, family, and human nature.
Our rate : ★
A reconstruction of the Heysel tragedy that seems highly fictionalized and determined to overwhelm, in a very caricatured and exaggerated way, the mayor, who is portrayed as an irresponsible alcoholic. We save the character of the mayor’s daughter, whose footsteps we follow as she guides us through the corridors of the Heysel Stadium, which has its share of mystery and tells the story of a world we imagine to be long gone.