Xan Brooks 

A Man’s Story – review

Zoolander without the laughs; A Man's Story is a corporate video about Ozwald Boateng, the proud peacock of British haute-couture, in the guise of a documentary, writes Xan Brooks
  
  


Ozwald Boateng, the proud peacock of British haute-couture, is subjected to some bespoke tailoring of his own thanks to this spectacularly wearing movie. Trawling though 10 years in the legend's life and times, A Man's Story shows us the bad days of Boateng, like the time he breaks up with his model wife, or remonstrates with the parking attendant who tows off his Range Rover. Happily, it also shows us the good, like the time he prances about on a catwalk or receives an honour from the Queen. It's Zoolander without the laughs; a corporate video in the guise of a documentary, unfailingly delighted to let Boateng hold forth on the glory of Boateng. "This is feeling a bit tight on Boateng," our hero grumbles at one stage, tugging on trousers, and unwittingly passing judgment on the film as a whole.

 

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