Tyson Documentary Debuts To Positive Reviews At Cannes
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The new Mike Tyson documentary directed by James Toback titled "Tyson" screened Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is a “sympathetic portrait of a complex man driven by an anger that still bubbles beneath the surface,” according to Ray Bennett of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Tyson’s “self-serving words tell everything. His candor appears sometimes unwitting but the result is a powerful film that will appeal to sports fans and those who respond to the visceral clamor of the fight world” (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 5/17). In London, Simon Crerar writes the documentary is a “brutally frank, no-holds barred” film that received "standing ovations from critics and audiences” Friday. The movie mixes “archive footage with a series of revealing interviews with Tyson, and only Tyson.” Toback said that he “believed he had succeeded in presenting Tyson as a ‘complex and iconic and noble human being'” (LONDON TIMES, 5/17). Toback, who financed the documentary himself, said that Tyson was “taken aback by the intense crowd reaction” to the film. Toback said of Tyson: “He turned to me and said, ‘I’ve never experienced anything like this,’ the spectacle was so overwhelming” (LATIMES.com, 5/17). However, in Phoenix, Norm Frauenheim writes it “sounds as if this documentary … is just another look at a former heavyweight champ who could never overcome an identity forever fractured by insecurities” (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 5/19).
COMING ATTRACTIONS: Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s documentary on Argentina soccer legend Diego Maradona will screen at Cannes this week (REUTERS, 5/17).
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