‘Heysel 85’ Review: A Real Soccer Riot Becomes a Tense Political Metaphor
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Intense and intently observed, Teodora Ana Mihai’s “Heysel 85” chronicles the eruption of violence before a major soccer match in Brussels. Its setting is the real Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985, but it presents its drama through fictionalized reporters and local leaders, and thus creates an engrossing political microcosm. Using a combination of staged footage […]