Kicking It

Rarely has the healing power of sports been as genuinely depicted as in director Susan Koch's perception-altering documentary "Kicking It," a heartfelt tribute to the annual Homeless World Cup. This international competition brings together 500 disparate, homeless players whose common love of soccer gives them a second -- and often last -- chance at a new beginning.

So earnest it hurts, “Kicking It” follows a half-dozen homeless men from around the globe as they ready for the fourth annual Homeless World Cup in Cape Town. Introduced and narrated by the actor Colin Farrell, who sports a thick brogue and thicker eyebrows and intones the thickest of schmaltz (“from war-torn Afghanistan to the slums of Africa to the streets and fields of Dublin where even as a child [...] Vai alla recensione »