An award-winning filmmaker offers a nuanced portrait of one of the most celebrated playwrights of all-time — who also happens to be her father — in “Arthur Miller: Writer.” Directed by Rebecca Miller (“The Ballad of Jack and Rose”), the doc explores the tension between the “Death of a Salesman” scribe’s public persona and the father Miller knew at home. “My father was a national icon decades before I was born,” she says in a new trailer for the HBO film. “Early on I recognized that his public persona was so different than the man I knew.”
“Arthur Miller: Writer” sees the daughter and father having intimate, candid conversations about self-doubt and failures. “I enjoyed being a father. I enjoyed also escaping being a father,” the “All My Sons” playwright admits to his daughter.
Arthur Miller died in 2005.
An Indie Spirit Award and Sundance winner, Rebecca Miller most recently wrote and directed 2016 Greta Gerwig-starrer “Maggie’s Plan,” a critically rom-com co-starring Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore. She’s teaming up with Nicole Kidman, Amy Schumer, and Steve Carell on her next pic, “She Came to Me,” a dramedy about intertwining love stories set in the world of contemporary art.
In May 2016 Miller founded a production company, Round Films.
“Arthur Miller: Writer” premiered at Telluride 2017. The film premieres on HBO March 19.
