Borg McEnroe Janus Metz Pedersen won the "Audience Award BNL"
Borg McEnroe Janus Metz Pedersen won the "Audience Award BNL" the twelfth edition of the Rome Film Festival. And 'the record with flashbacks of the most exciting challenge of winning the Wimbledon Cup held in 1980.
On the one hand the icy and composed Bjorn Borg, the other, the irascible and Blood John McEnroe. The first eager to confirm the undisputed king of tennis, the second determined to unseat. Unveiling their lives on and off the field, Borg McEnroe It is the compelling portrait, intimate and exciting two protagonists in tennis history and the story, epic, a final become a legend: precisely that of Wimbledon 1980.
He clarifies the director: Per me Borg McEnroe is the version set in the tennis world wild bull. He tells of two boys, each struggling to prove to be the best, to feel important, to be someone. Caught up in their rivalry - one of the most spectacular in the history of sports - have ended up have to deal with themselves and with their own demons. To explore the inner turmoil of Bjorn and John, the film makes use of a raw photography, very using the hand-held camera and the steady-cam to transmit a sense of immediacy and realism. At this time sequences are opposed to creating an atmosphere rich, with almost symbolic images that aim to suggest the historical significance of the events. The film is about a clash of the titans, and this requires the proper proportions. We put the viewer in the shoes Bjorn and John, but then we leave this space saturated and sometimes claustrophobic to regain a broader perspective that emphasizes the importance of the match and the existential dimension of history. Being a biopic based on the life of Bjorn and John, and in particular to the final legendary Wimbledon 1980, Borg McEnroe It evokes an era of the sport in which tennis players were the "rock star" and where John and Bjorn emerged as the greatest. It was not just two men who played tennis. It was the clash between two continents. Two behaviors, two opposite characters placed facing each other. Two different ways of being men. Borg McEnroe marvelously demonstrates this.