If there is a secretive character it is certainly Robert De Niro.
His interviews are very rare and he especially rarely shares with the public his private vicissitudes or stories related to his childhood and adolescence.
What has been a major difficulty in the New York actor’s life more than anything else has been the absence of a father figure when he was a boy, a confession made in his biography edited by John Baxter.
Robert Henry De Niro, better known as Robert De Niro Sr., was a painter, poet and sculptor who along his long career as an artist experimented with various tendencies, from abstractionism to expressionism, and eventually built a strong and personal figurative recognition that earned him the praise of the most prominent critics of the time.
New York-based brand Aimé Leon Dore has produced a splendid short film, titled “In The Past Goes Fast”, in which Robert De Niro opens the doors of his father’s studio that has remained untouched for nearly 30 years to French artist JR and in which he recounts his complex relationship with his father.
An intimate and profound chat that tells the complexities of a very personal story that few people know.
Below you can see “In The Past Goes Fast“, the short film produced by Aimé Leon Dore with JR and Robert De Niro.
