Val Kilmer’s life and career is illustrated via the actor’s own recordings in an often curious yet incomplete mosaic
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Who is Val Kilmer? Is he a former A-lister, whose idiosyncrasies and counter-culture taste made him a
Hollywood outcast? Or is he an unbearable egotist who alienated the industry through rude unprofessionalism and impossible demands? One might naively assume that a snazzy new documentary called Val, that recently premiered at Cannes before now heading to cinemas and then
Amazon Prime, might hold some answers, weaving its way back through a career of meteoric highs and subterranean lows. But the film’s blessing – unprecedented access to the
Actor himself and his own personally recorded set of videos – is also its curse, taking us close to him but still at a careful distance, like being invited to his house but made to wait at the door.
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