Champion, The

[Subtitled] [Plays on Feb. 21 at 6:45 p.m. as part of the MSP Film Society's 11th Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis / St. Paul at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.] After a popular, highly talented, hot-tempered, Lamborghini-loving, dyslexic soccer star (Andrea Carpenzano) in Rome has everyone, including his widowed mooching father (Sergio Romano), wanting something from him and a guilt-ridden professor (Stefano Accorsi), who is estranged from his wife (Anita Caprioli), is hired to tutor him so that he can get his diploma in Leonardo D'Agostini's slow-paced, intense, well-acted, unpredictable, 105-minute film, their tumultuous relationship eventually changes both of their lives.
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