Broken Noses [DVD]

Andy Minsker and the boys of the Mt. Scott Boxing Club shot by Bruce Weber is the living version of the rare book of the same name - Broken Noses. Charming and beautifully shot. Photography as you would expect of a high quality from Bruce Weber. A pre-cursor to the Abercrombie and Fitch montages that we have now grown so used to.

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How much love, how much fight necessary to pass from a young boy state to a young man state ? The young man coaching the young boys. And the elder man having coached or educated the young man. Or filming it. How much beauty giving sense to life ? How something of the male state passes through generations ? By the fighting, the movement together, the grasping of the bodies, the words, the beauty of the skins, the soft material of the boxing dress, the softness of the roses in the garden, the rose cheeks of a laughing young man, the smell of sweat in the locker-room. And the manificence of jazz music. The images, alternatively coloured or black and white, following the rythm and words of the music. A real poem. Of those which give strength and desire to the baby man to become a young man. A young man reading : the movements of his lips as the movements of his arms when he is boxing. Really wonderful

This documentary by Bruce Weber is short and sweet - very sweet given the laughing, sunny nature of Andy Minsker, the boxer who even looks a bit like Chet Baker (on the soundtrack) and French actor Stephane Rideau. He seems an estimable guy, who stayed with his coach even where he might have gone elsewhere, had a successful boxing career if less than it might have been, and at the time of filming was coaching in a gym for young boxers. The photography goes from black and white to colour - the latter capturing Minsker's fabulous old turquoise car to perfection, and he is endlessly engaging and alluringly filmed. In fact Weber has a brilliant eye for his subjects and the whole film comes across as a homage to youthful energy and appeal, while giving a sense of older figures too and giving them enough space for us to get their note and see how this world works, possibly, although nothing is spelt out by Weber.

Filmed mostly in black and white, this documentary speaking with Andy Minsker, his family, trainer and the boys he trains etc is so entertaining and informative, you have to love it and him. It's filmed beautifully and it is definitely worth watching. Not just for boxing fans, it's so cute!