S Is for Stanley (2015)
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A driver’s unexpected meeting with Stanley Kubrick develops into a decades-long friendship at the heart of a documentary about the filmmaker’s life.
The story
Seen through the perspective of his driver Emilio D’Alessandro, the documentary follows Stanley Kubrick’s life and their relationship. The two meet in London in 1971, where D’Alessandro is working as a racing-car driver. Kubrick offers him a job as his personal driver, and the two develop a deep friendship despite seeming very different from one another. Their bond unfolds across thirty years and intersects with four of Kubrick’s films, providing the documentary’s account of the filmmaker through the experience of someone who worked closely with him.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The life of Stanley Kubrick as seen through the eyes of his driver, Emilio D’Alessandro. D’Alessandro happened to meet Kubrick in London in 1971, where he was working as a racing-car driver. Kubrick wanted him to be his personal driver, and the two developed a deep friendship, which culminated in 1999 with a series of tributes the filmmaker paid him in his final film, Eyes Wide Shut: Kubrick had him perform a cameo, named the bar Tom Cruise visits after him, and also had his wife and daughter Marisa appear as extras in the film. The documentary portrays a friendship that spanned thirty years of life and four masterpieces in cinema history, bringing together two people who seemed very different from each other.
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