As a Chelsea fan, I'll always have a soft spot for Nicolas Anelka. But what I'm missing in this documentary is some self-reflection from him. When you hear him talk, it appears like his entire career was "everyone was against me", while the reality was that he was very talented, but his ego is almost twice as big.

Best example I can give is his penalty miss in the CL-final against Man United. Anelka says it "killed his career at Chelsea", but he stayed for 3,5 more seasons, playing regulary, even becoming top scorer one season. So I get the feeling that Anelka has 2 careers; his actual playing career, and the one he thinks he's had.

Luckily there are plenty of other people to do some reflecting for him, which makes for a balanced documentary.

I’m sure him doing a N*zi salute celebration was “misunderstood”

Didn't understand the french so just looked at the pictures

Koliko je klubova promenio ni serija od pet sezona ne bi bila dovoljna

I like Anelka as a player and this just confirms my liking of him. Not the best documentary but I enjoyed it nonetheless

What they’re trying to say here is a bit daft. The whole reason behind this is to show the many “misunderstandings” of Anelka’s career, but in this Anelka does everything but recognise his faults and he unsurprisingly comes off as egotistical throughout. It feels incredibly dismissive to some of the controversies, nailed down by having Anelka’s friends being the main narrative set pieces. 

It’s still a very fun documentary, the football stuff is well integrated and the interviews were fun if not a bit unprofessional. The start of the film contains a long take of Anelka walking through a desert, thankfully it didn’t pop up regularly and I was able to take the film relatively seriously. It’s well put together, relatively well structured even with the quite poor subtext and well paced.

An enjoyable, stylish doc, with lots of interesting talking heads. But I’m an Arsenal fan; I’m not sure it has the kind of general appeal or filmmaking chops that something like Senna had.

I was hoping for a more put together documentary of Anelka`s career.
A player I have no real reason to like as I´m a Man United fan, he should be someone I hate with a passion really.
But he was an absolutely brilliant player and backed his arrogance with performance.
It was great to hear about some of the controversies that surrounded him from his perspective and also from some of the people who were close to him.

Could have been a better documentary as a whole but its a good small glimpse into the mind of one of the most interesting players i´ve seen play football

Kind of boring.

Didn't really buy it

Came for Thierry Henry.

Mostly boring and tries unsuccessfully (at least for me) to make an unlikeable man seem like a hero.

Pas assez complet malheureusement, mais assez intéressant tout de même sur ce personnage complexe du foot français.

Misunderstood yes... I didn't learn anything more.

Déjà que Domenech je pouvais pas le blairer.
Et l'équipe est tjrs un journal de merde ça bouge pas

Via Netflix. The filmmakers were able to use much A+ footage in this documentary. I enjoyed seeing Anelka's career as a brief story arc with match footage and good interviews with many legendary football players.

I felt sad for how we treat each other in our societies. When someone famous is involved in something notable, we buy in to the collective furoure, and get our cheap satisfaction for a brief moment. However, we make an enemy of the person being highlighted. It could make them a stronger person in some situations. This persecution can also solidify hatred in a person's heart and cause adversarial relationships amongst us. It is, in the end, the society as whole who will suffer.

We must show compassion for all.

not enough Bolton talk...
love all the “complications” we just gonna skip over...
Lots of early success and like that quote about what if PSG hated Neymar...

3 de 5
Documental que muestra la realidad del ser humano que es Anelka, más allá del jugador que pudo tener tanto por sobre todo, el ser humano que se aferró en buena forma a sus valores familiares, ideas e integridad personal.

Bom jogador

The artist as footballer.