The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
France's 2010 World Cup remains one of sport's great self-inflicted implosions, and this documentary goes back to the bus that would not move — the strike that turned a tournament into a national scandal and a global headline.
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Synopsis
This documentary revisits the French football team’s controversial 2010 World Cup and the bus strike that sparked global headlines and national outrage.
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France's 2010 World Cup remains one of sport's great self-inflicted implosions, and this documentary goes back to the bus that would not move — the strike that turned a tournament into a national scandal and a global headline. Built around the anatomy of a collapse rather than the glow of a campaign, it treats a football story as a story about authority, ego, and a country watching in disbelief.
Sports-documentary viewers will find plenty here, and so will anyone drawn to institutional meltdowns generally; you do not need to follow football to enjoy watching a chain of bad decisions run its course. Expect a brisk eighty minutes, archive material, and the grim comedy of grown professionals talking straight past one another. If you like documentaries about how things go wrong in public, this is a satisfying, tightly told case study.
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