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National galleries buy Zidane film for £70,000
PHIL MILLER, Arts Correspondent July 26 2006About £70,000 has been spent securing a film about Zinedine Zidane, the legendary French footballer, for Scotland’s national galleries.
The film will receive its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival this summer and is to be given a theatrical release in September, before being released on DVD in time for Christmas.
But a new version of Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, created by the award-winning Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon, has been bought by the National Galleries of Scotland.
The work bought by the institution is a special cut created by the artist specifically for showing in art gallery spaces. Keith Hartley, chief curator of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, said: “It is very different from what people will see in the cinema.”
It received warm reviews when first shown at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. The film is a 90-minute study of Zidane playing for Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, before 80,000 supporters, against Villareal in Spain’s Primera Liga on April 23, 2005.
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