Film

Val 2021

Directed by Ting Poo, Leo Scott

  • Documentary
  • 109 min
  • R

The life you live is the story you tell.

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

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Character-led, earnest, spare and contemplative.

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  • earnestironic
  • sparerichly built
  • contemplativerelentless
  • unpretentiousprestige

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