A beautiful silver medal and memories full of the head, that’s what all the players of the French men’s team brought back from their Olympic stay in Japan. Boris Diaw, now manager of the Blues, took him his camera and filmed everything he could to ultimately make a very beautiful documentary which retraces the career of Rudy Gobert and his friends. Little throwback (without spoilers for those who haven’t seen it) on “A Mission”the story of the Blues at the 2021 Olympic Games. A documentary broadcast yesterday after France’s match against Hungary on France 4.
We left hours of sleep there during these Tokyo Olympics, getting up at two or three in the morning to see guys jumping over hurdles at full speed, or women trying to jump as far as possible in a Sandbox. We saw sports whose rules we didn’t even know existed, just to wait for the matches of the French men’s basketball team. But these hours of sleep were well worth losing given the performance of the Blues during these Olympic Games. In the end, a beautiful silver medal which could have turned into gold with five small points. Such an epic is well worth its Sport Interior, isn’t it? That’s good, Babac had planned it. Boris Diaw has not let go of his camera for the two weeks of competition to release a documentary filmed from the inside. On the program for the 1h20 film? Exclusive interviews with the twelve players, images filmed inside the locker room and in training, all with a microphone on Vincent Collet. Next to that, sequences filmed in the rooms of the players during their days off and also that of the staff during the draw for the quarter-finals, all interspersed with match images with comments from Eurosport. Which allowed us to remember good memories and to have a good laugh again.
Boris Diaw has been filming his travels and adventures around the globe for quite a few years now and it started long before he retired. His passion for photography developed from 2004, when he started doing photo safaris. But his goal was to have images that tell great stories and provide great emotions. This is where he replaced his passion with a new one: video. At the London Olympics in 2012, Babac had already filmed the journey, but as a player alongside his teammates. The sequences filmed were clearly more limited than today, he had much less time to devote to them, so the images remained internal to the French Federation. From now on, Boris Diaw is freer and has the perfect status to film footage internally in the locker room before or after the match. People accredited for communication could not go that far. So if others can’t keep track, it’s better to do it yourself and, so much the better, the result is even better.
A beautiful successful documentary by Babac on one of the most beautiful epics of the French team, with inside and beautiful punchlines. This is what “On Mission” is all about. For those who missed it last night, it’s available for replay on FranceTV right now. Mini false spoiler: stay well until the end of the documentary, the scene added during the end credits is simply brilliant.
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