When I set out to see R.J. Cutler‘s new documentary, Martha, quite frankly I wasn’t focusing on it other than just another screening I had, and that it would be all about Martha Stewart. So I expected it would be mostly gardening, cooking and setting the perfect dinner-party table.
Boy was I ever wrong, happily so, because this is simply a riveting, candid and surprisingly warts-and-all look at the life and times of Stewart, someone very much in the public eye for much of her career but until now guarding the image and the person behind what we thought we knew about her.
I probably shouldn’t have been surprised, because Cutler is a filmmaker who generally digs deep and manages to present portraits of his subjects that haven’t been seen before. His docus on Anna Wintour, Billie Eilish
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