Released on February 19, 2025 in the cinema, the film “Mercato” plunges the viewer behind the scenes of the football industry
The transfer window is a well -known term of football fans, but not only: it is the transfer market for professional players, from one club to another. Each year, the acquisitions of footballers are followed closely and make the media news: they now give rise to a film film.
Transfer window was released in dark rooms on February 19, 2025. Directed by Tristan Séguéla, he followed a sports agent embodied by Jamel Debbouze. The latter has only seven players to prove that he is a good players’ agent and reverse the course of his life with a fantastic buyout.
Dramatic comedy but also thriller, Transfer window Rather, it appealed to press criticism, since the feature film collects the specialized note of 3.5/5 on Allociné. For Teleramait is an “effective and tense thriller in football business”. Ouest-France thus salutes a “breathless film from start to finish”, Les Echos “A striking film”, while 20 minutes Sees in this feature film the confirmation that Jamel Debbouze “can hold a dramatic feature film convincingly”.
The seduced media greet “the energy deployed” by the actor (La Voix du Nord) but also its sense of rhythm and editing, which “keeps in suspense from start to finish” (Le Journal du Dimanche). Conversely, others are more nuanced, like Nice-Matin which deplores “a few lengths”. Even echo on the side of Paris-Match, which believes that these lengths “end up diluting the subject” from the film. The soccer players will be seduced, but the uninitiated will therefore not be left on the sidelines.
Synopsis – Behind the scenes of today’s football, a planetary industry where interests amount to billions. Driss, player agent, has seven days to save his skin before the end of the transfer window …