A Man's Story

Name: A Man's Story
Director: Varon Bonicos
Released: 2011

Synopsis

Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.

88
New York Post
Showing the personal toll that produces a star in any field could be a soggy, predictable drag, but the documentary A Man's Story never slides into easy sentiment or bromides.
75
The Playlist
A fascinating look at the juggling act of a man who is succeeding in public, but still trying to find the answers in private.
50
The A.V. Club
Trouble is, even a finely tailored suit needs a body to fill it, and A Man's Story never gets its man.
50
Village Voice
The result often plays more like a satire of the fashion industry than a serious look at one of the humans inside it.
50
The New York Times
An unsatisfying look at the London designer Ozwald Boateng, was shot over 12 years and aspires to a degree of intimacy, yet this glancing treatment is not very enlightening.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Diehard fashionistas will likely want to see it, but few others will take notice.
50
Los Angeles Times
As a flashy, country-hopping ridealong with a style icon, it will appeal to fashionistas, but you won't learn much about the high-end world of clothing design beyond its ability to stretch someone's schedule to the breaking point, and land that someone a gig outfitting Jamie Foxx and Will Smith.
40
Time Out
Neither totally impartial nor a puff piece, Varon Bonicos's documentary on fashion icon Ozwald Boateng nonetheless evinces a minimal amount of interest in digging into what makes its subject tick.