“What does it mean to be happy anyway?” filmmaker R.J. Cutler asks The Hollywood Reporter, referring to the subject of his latest documentary, Martha Stewart.
Stewart — who tells THR, “I think I’m 83 years old; every article that I read says that I’m 83 years old, so I must be” — has lived an exceptional life punctuated by a brand of perfection that’s attainable if you dare to put in enough care and effort. Her life and pursuit of perfection is highlighted and interrogated in Cutler’s doc Martha.
The documentary debuted in October on Netflix to much zeitgeisty fanfare and fuss, with a central question at its core: Has the queen of homemaking found happiness in the perfection she peddled? Was it in a sumptuous meringue tartlet? The perfect doily-ladened dinner table? Maybe it was in the billion-dollar media empire she sacrificed to build, or perhaps, as
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