S Is for Stanley

A tender documentary portrait of an unlikely 30-year friendship between a legendary filmmaker and his devoted driver, celebrating human connection and loyalty across class and cultural divides.

The incredible story of the Italian Emilio D'Alessandro, personal driver of the great director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), who met Emilio by chance in London in 1971 and hired him, thus establishing a deep friendship that lasted thirty years and helped create four masterpieces of cinema. A moving tale about two seemingly opposing people who found their ideal travel companion far away from home…