Muhammad Ali, the Greatest

Section: Retros & Focus / Focus The Photographed Cinema - Freeze-frames

From his fight against Sonny Liston in 1964 to his victory against George Foreman in 1974, the incredible career of Cassius Clay, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali, a brilliant boxer and a master speaker.

“For Ali, the Greatest, Klein avoids shooting the fights; he prefers to go around them to better capture the reverse of the issue and the bets at stake. To accomplish that, he makes ellipses of them by means of audacious editing, replacing the virtuosity of the bodies and their violence, as is certi [...]

more more films