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Boxing Gym -- Film Review

10:37 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Ray Bennett

CANNES -- Iconic documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman applies the same technique to pugilism in "Boxing Gym" as he did to ballet in "La Danse" last year but with considerably less impact.

Wiseman likes to set down his camera in a busy environment and capture what goes on, then edit the results into a coherent whole. But whereas the dancers seemed bent on artistic goals, there's no getting away from the fact that while some may call boxing the sweet science, it still comes down to punching someone in the face.

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