Top Docs: Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers "Super/Man" with Peter Ettedgui & Ian Bonhôte
Continuing our coverage of the 2025 Emmy Awards, Mike is joined by Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte, directors of "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" and nominees for Outstanding Directing For A Documentary/Nonfiction Program (the film received three other Emmy nominations as well ). In sketching their portrait of Christopher Reeve, who embodied the superhero in a series of films beginning in 1978, Ettedgui and Bonhôte anchor their story with Reeve’s tragic fall in 1995, one which left him paralyzed. They then interweave the twinned stories of Reeve’s rise to fame (as well as the discontents that followed) with that of the decade of his life that followed the fall.
The effect of this intricate narrative braiding reinforces the message delivered to Reeve by his wife Dana in the days after the fall: “You are still you.” The movie becomes a testament to the continuity of spirit in the face of physical challenge, as Reeve not only faces his personal demons, but becomes a full-throated advocate for those that share his condition.
Super/Man can be seen on HBO Max in the US and Sky in the UK.
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