Morgan Neville's poignant documentary explores the cultural phenomenon that is Steve Martin.
"I guarantee you, I have no talent — none," Steve Martin declares without a trace of sarcasm in the opening scenes of Steve! A Documentary in Two Pieces.The 78-year-old says this despite his enduring, decades-long Hollywood acting career and the fact he was the biggest comedian of all time before he ever set foot on a film set.
It features musings from Martin gleaned from over 20 hours of interviews. The likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Gopnik and Bob Einstein provide commentary. "And for somebody like Steve, who , you think, 'If I become the biggest, most loved comedian, everything will be fine'. Neville films Martin for an untold number of hours as he goes about his everyday life — frequently with his longtime comedy partner and currentco-star Martin Short delightfully in tow — while considering how he went from being "riddled with anxiety" in his 30s, to "really happy" in his 70s.Read more
To Neville, the insight into Martin's experience of celebrity isn't what he finds most interesting or wants people to take away from this story, but "the relatability of it"; the life lessons that can be gleaned from one man's gruelling attempt to make it in comedy for 15 years, until he suddenly exceeded all expectations of what he could do, only to realise the life he'd wanted wasn't the one he needed. "Film is reductive.
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