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Val Kilmer\u2019s children, Jack and Mercedes, arrived at Deadline\u2019s Cannes Studio yesterday with the directors and producers of a new documentary about their father\u2019s life, Val, which premiered at Cannes this week. The film, by Leo Scott and Ting Poo, is comprised of a lifetime of videotapes Kilmer shot documenting his life and career.<\/p>\n
Among the film\u2019s highlights for movie lovers, Val includes footage shot by Kilmer in his trailer on Top Gun, and while fighting with John Frankenheimer on The Island of Dr. Moreau. But the movie is also an intimate and touching look at Kilmer\u2019s personal life and path through cinema, from his youth, and the loss of his beloved brother Wesley at 15, through to his treatment and painful recovery from a throat cancer diagnosis in 2015.<\/p>\n
The movie is narrated in Kilmer\u2019s own words by his son Jack, and the actor took a keen creative role in shaping the final product, Scott and Poo said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the camera around all the time, with dad taking photos and videos,\u201d said Jack Kilmer. \u201cWe never saw any of the footage. He just would keep creating, boxes and boxes. At a certain point we said, \u2018This is enough, what are all these tapes doing?\u2019 They all accumulated in this vault that Leo spent years going through.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used to get so annoyed with him filming us all the time,\u201d added Mercedes. \u201cAnd then I remember getting to be about 12 and realizing what he does and being like, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s a filmmaker.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch more from the team behind Val in the video below.<\/p>\n
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