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BROKEN NOSES
1987
Director
Bruce Weber
Starring
Andy Minkser
Runtime
75 minutes
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Black-and-white pics of male models in Calvin Klein knickers - that's photographer Bruce Weber. Or is it? His first feature, an experimental documentary in b&w and color, breaks the mold. BROKEN NOSES centers on ex-Olympian lightweight boxer Andy Minsker as he devotedly coaches teenage hopefuls, even as he realizes his dream is gone.
The film follows Minsker around Portland, Oregon: he talks to camera, engages parents and friends in tense, hearty conversation, and hangs out with his adopted gang, the tough kids he trains in his Mt Scott boxing club. Most of the kids are from broken homes and many of their parents were in prison. The film traces Minsker’s boxing career, his fights in Las Vegas and his training of the young men whom he’s almost adopted as his own sons. The unstable foundations of faux machismo gently rock the screen and truth leaks out. Weber's eye is insistent, coaxing out the most deeply engaging moments from this battered world.
The film follows Minsker around Portland, Oregon: he talks to camera, engages parents and friends in tense, hearty conversation, and hangs out with his adopted gang, the tough kids he trains in his Mt Scott boxing club. Most of the kids are from broken homes and many of their parents were in prison. The film traces Minsker’s boxing career, his fights in Las Vegas and his training of the young men whom he’s almost adopted as his own sons. The unstable foundations of faux machismo gently rock the screen and truth leaks out. Weber's eye is insistent, coaxing out the most deeply engaging moments from this battered world.