In the film, Kilmer is forced to project his story on the empty space between the notes.Īmong Kilmer’s many defining roles, the one which appears to ring truest is his encapsulation of Jim Morrison, the poet and lead vocalist of the Doors in Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic, The Doors. Surgical procedures have split his throat, shredding the scope of his instrument. Non-verbal exchanges are important, but dialogue is the primary idea delivery system in staged and filmed works.

An actor’s voice is more than a tool, it is their primary source of communication. “And now that it’s difficult to speak, I want to tell my story more than ever.” Kilmer is an artist, one who takes his vocation very seriously and introspectively. “I’ve wanted to tell a story about acting for a very long time,” Kilmer says toward the beginning of the documentary. While there are flourishes of humor, the documentary is a serious study of an artist who has always struggled to be understood, told through the selective memory of Kilmer’s POV. The narration of the new film is thus done by his son Jack Kilmer, allowing the pair to share a non-verbal connection throughout the journey, and through time and expression itself.

The actor underwent two tracheostomies, and now can only speak while covering a tube. During a tour of his one-man stage show, Citizen Twain, Val Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer. Leo Scott and Ting Poo’s new documentary feature, Val, is not a mortality play.

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