Official Trailer for ‘Sr.’ – Robert Downey Jr.’s Doc Movie About His Dad
by Alex Billington
November 14, 2022
Supply: YouTube
“It was this concept that movies kinda introduced us collectively, and to at the present time, nonetheless do.” Identical with my Dad and me. Netflix has revealed the official trailer for an acclaimed documentary movie titled merely Sr., directed by award-winning doc filmmaker Chris Smith (American Film, Jim & Andy: The Nice Past, Fyre). The title is a reference to Robert Downey Sr., the daddy of actor Robert Downey Jr. (they even make enjoyable of the title on this trailer). The very intimate, very private movie is about their father-son relationship and his father’s work within the movie business. Like Father. Like Son. Like No Different. Sr. is a lovingly irreverent portrait of the life and profession of maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. (who handed away in 2021) that devolves right into a meditation on artwork, mortality, and therapeutic generational dysfunction. The movie initially premiered on the 2022 Telluride Movie Competition and in addition confirmed up at NYFF, AFI Fest, and DOC NYC this fall. It has been receiving glowing opinions and is predicted to get some documentary nominations in the course of the awards season.
Here is the official trailer (+ poster) for Chris Smith’s documentary Sr., direct from Netflix’s YouTube:
From documentarian Chris Smith comes a lovingly irreverent portrait of the life, profession, and final days of maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., whose rebellious spirit infused many years of counterculture movie-making. Sr. widens the lens from Downey’s artwork to the life with which it was deeply intertwined, together with an intimate examination of his relationship with son Robert Downey, Jr. Shot over three years, the movie actually honors Senior’s nonlinear, outlaw-life method, together with capturing his choice to embark on his personal concurrent, remaining movie undertaking. This portrait of a household and an artist is a meditation on life that’s as surreal as it’s sentimental, a celebration of creating artwork with no guidelines that tosses out its personal rulebook alongside the best way. Sr. is directed by acclaimed American doc producer / filmmaker Chris Smith, director of the doc movies American Film, Residence Film, The Sure Males, Collapse, Jim & Andy: The Nice Past, Fyre, and Operation Varsity Blues beforehand. This initially premiered on the 2022 Telluride Movie Competition, and it additionally performed at NYFF. Netflix releases Sr. streaming on Netflix beginning December 2nd, 2022. Look good?
