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‘Maybe we should let me go’: Christopher Reeve documentary brings tears to Sundance | Sundance 2024

A standing ovation met a powerful new film looking at life for the Superman star before and after his paralysing accident

The film, directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, features an intimate collection of home video footage and new interviews with Reeve’s three children and the actors who knew him. His children remember an urban myth within the family that apparently his otherwise unimpressed father ordered champagne when he found out, yet only because he was mistaken and thought that his son had secured a role in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. His relationship to British modelling agent Gae Exton, which brought him his first two children, was put under strain from being in the public eye, the pair criticised for not getting married and the work taking its toll.

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