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PURE RACING
SENNA (PG-13) There's a common belief that
art and athletics don't mix. Yet, many writ
ers and musicians have made significant work
inspired by athletes in motion. Anyone who
has watched Pele, Ali, Jordan or Messi do their
thing knows how remarkable their creativity is.
Hollywood regularly churns out sentimental
entertainment about dim-witted yet lovable
jocks or grizzled coaches looking for one more
chance at glory. There's no mystery as to why.
Boxing, baseball, football and soccer have to
varying degrees engaging narrative structures,
ready-made melodrama
and fistfuls of conflict
featuring colorful
rogues. The majority
of films made, though,
aren't good. To get a
rare film like Raging
Bull or Bull Durham,
you have to risk sitting
through brain-freezing
junk like Fever Pitch or
The Legend of Bagger
Vance. Most documen
taries about sport are just as useless. They're
nothing but hagiographies designed to keep
you as far away from the subject as possible.
That's why, when a great, insightful one comes
along (Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings),
you pay attention.
British director Asif Kapadia's Senna,
focusing on the life and career of Formula
One driver Ayrton Senna, is one of the best.
Senna hailed from a wealthy Brazilian family.
but earned his reputation as one of the finest
racers alive on his own terms. He was hand
some, charming and modest, and approached
his sport with an artist's intuition for taking
chances but the intelligence to know when
to hold back. Kapadia's portrait of the man is
psychologically uncomplicated (he loved God,
country, his family and racing), but the film's
core dramatic conflict comes in the shape of
Senna's contentious rivalry with fellow driver
Alain Prost—an intelligent, arrogant, con
niving opponent who comes off as Senna's
shadow self—and with
the head of the racing
federation, Jean-Marie
Balestre.
This is documentary
filmmaking of the high
est order. Eschewing
the boring talking-head
and reenactment for
mat, Kapadia instead
relies on dynamic
archival racing footage,
home movies and can
did interviews with the man himself, investing
in the powers of good editing and compelling
storytelling to bring his fascinating and ulti
mately poignant portrait of Senna to life. Fans
of Formula One will find much to savor here,
but more importantly, so will people who know
nothing about racing or have little interest in
sport. You just have to love great movies.
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