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- 2003
- Not Rated
- Grove Press
- 2 h
- 2003
- Not Rated
- Grove Press
- 2 h
Summary A historical and a cultural icon is captured in the making in this full-blown portrait -- its footage has been mined for countless other Ali documentaries -- of the out-of-the-ring but never off-stage Ali, pre- and during world fame. (Film Forum)
Directed By: William Klein
Written By: William Klein
- 2003
- Not Rated
- Grove Press
- 2 h
- 2003
- Not Rated
- Grove Press
- 2 h
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
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Summary A historical and a cultural icon is captured in the making in this full-blown portrait -- its footage has been mined for countless other Ali documentaries -- of the out-of-the-ring but never off-stage Ali, pre- and during world fame. (Film Forum)
Directed By: William Klein
Written By: William Klein
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In an era whose culture was defined by what the literary critic Richard Poirier called the performing self, Mr. Ali's persona was one of the greatest performances of all.
More about Ali as media star and social figure, less about the quicksilver athlete.
William Klein's film documents a turbulent time and an outsized personality, but the film's glories are in the details and its intimacy would be unimaginable in the rigidly spin-controlled atmosphere of 21st-century sports.
Fight footage is kept to a minimum; in this film, the boxer's best one-two's don't hit inside the ring. Clay's ingenious hype-baiting moxie drives the first half, cut to a nouvelle pop beat.
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Production Company
Delpire Productions,
Films Paris-New York
Release Date Apr 11, 2003
Duration 2 h
Rating Not Rated
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