Only some of Italian footballer Francesco Totti’s 334 career goals (307 scored with Roma, the only team he ever played for outside the nationals) are shown in Alex Infascelli’s bio-doc My Name Is Francesco Totti (Mi chiamo Francesco Totti).
Nor is there very much aboutthe icon’s private life; there are no attempts at intimate revelations or powerful insights. But the subject is such a natural charmer and his athletic feats so reliable that the film is a relaxing watch, even for those who don’t flash the team’s yellow and red colors.
Filmed with smooth force by Alex Infascelli, a director of popular music videos and the prize-winning features Almost Blue and S Is for Stanley, this ably constructed doc has the feeling of a first-person.
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