The Power of the Game (2007)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/USA

Feature Documentary

Director: Michael Apted

Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti

Composer: Carmen Rizzo

Apted’s diverting and ambitious if rather low-key documentary examines, in the build-up to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, football’s power to aid and enact social change, looking at political reform, racism, women’s rights, and poverty in diverse countries from across the world, contrasted against the apathy that greets the beautiful game in the USA. Iain.Stott