Golden Gloves (1961)
- Directed by
- Gilles Groulx
- Genre
- documentary film, boxing film, direct cinema
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 28 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary follows three boxers in Montreal as they train for a local Golden Gloves tournament. It shows their daily routines and personal ambitions within a changing Quebec society.
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What happens
Golden Gloves is a 1961 Direct Cinema documentary directed by Gilles Groulx about boxers preparing for a Golden Gloves tournament in Montreal. The film is narrated by Claude Jutra. Golden Gloves focuses on three Montreal boxers in training, exploring their lives and hopes. The 1961 film marked a shift among French-Canadian filmmakers at the NFB away from folkloric films towards works that dealt with contemporary Quebec society. One of the featured fighters, Black Canadian Ronald Jones, was later cast in a small role in Michel Brault's 1967 drama Entre la mer et l'eau douce. A sequence with Jones and his brother was also used in the 2008 production The Memories of Angels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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