Val Kilmer documentary charts Hollywood rise and fall | Malay Mail

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CANNES, July 9 — Val Kilmer has made an intriguing and bittersweet return to the big screen at the Cannes film festival in a new documentary charting his stratospheric rise and later fall in Hollywood through his own home recordings. The Amazon-produced documentary Val is a tender portrait of the...

described the film as “agile and alive”, and praised the frankness of its star: “How many certified movie stars would allow themselves to be filmed so physically altered, and on the inescapable downslope of an A-list career?”, a flop that marked the start of his career’s decline in the late 1990s, but the documentary mostly downplays his obsessive — and reportedly exasperating — work habits.

“The film-makers sometimes gloss over aspects of Kilmer’s legacy that would have been fascinating to interrogate, such as his reputation for being difficult with his directors,” wrote Screen Daily. — and not just in Kilmer’s physical presence — that’s unexpectedly moving.” Kilmer was the youngest person ever accepted to New York’s fabled Juilliard school and longed to make serious films, only to find himself in a series of schlocky blockbusters and expensive flops.

“Being difficult was the price he made everyone pay for trapping him in a system he found too little satisfaction in,” saidChastened by a decade or more of low-budget movies, Kilmer was mounting a comeback in the 2010s with a successful stage show about Mark Twain that he hoped to turn into a film, when he was struck by cancer. Variety

 

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