Ben Steller, in his most personal movie in the premiere of “Steller & Mail” in New York

Over the course of five years in this field, the documentary of Ben Steller grew on his parents, Jerry Steller and Ann Mira, whose television appearance was the basic pillar in the 1960s and 1970s, to include his personal experience with the family, parenting and motherhood, with the results of his surprise.

“I just wanted to tell the story of their career and their lives, and with its development, I realized that there should be more … People will say that this is interesting … but there is something missing in terms of personal perspective. [And] “It took it some time, because I didn’t really think that I wanted to be in the movie at all,” Steller said in Apple Original World, which was first shown at the New York Film Festival on Sunday.

The transition is back and forth in time, the document is installed by the loudspeaker, the abundant videos and the written archives that Jerry Steller keeps from the early love messages of the couple to footage of the fame of the ascension as a comedy country on Ed Sullivan offer With loud clips from the last man and a woman dating back, Jonah, whale and other routine and abundant clips from Mike Douglas Show.

The duo sparked success and sought to support a young family in a volatile industry. It differs in mood and aspirations, and it is often in the conflict.

Meraa died in 2015 and Jerry Steller in 2020. Ben Steller and his sister Amy, the document, began shortly after Covid, remembering their childhood apartment on the western side of their parents and their own experience as children from a very busy couple and often pay attention but loved. The document is sprayed with a steel, an interview with his children, Ella and Koin, and finds, to be surprised that they feel as if he had, hoping that he was more present. He said, “You think you know what your children think, but you don’t do it.”

“My children grew over five years. The interview was conducted with Ella at first, so I will meet her when she is still a teenager. She is 23 years old. The interview with Queen had done seven or eight months, at the end of the operation, so there was something that benefits him in this, so that there is a different intent, even when I was talking to Ella, unlike what I was talking to them.

When asked about a question and answer after the screen if he believed that his parents want to want the movie, “I do not know,” but his mother maybe, maybe his father will not. “If the show does not break,” this means that he is fine, he said jokingly.

“It is very personal. It is real. So it is a strange thing, I was never a movie about my family … What we were talking about was our lives. Then it was about how to reach a movie that had a kind of cohesion. I really wanted to be the matter that people wanted, even if they did not know about our people.”

“I think that every person in the family felt that it was good … put it there because we were able to see the topics that came, that when we show them to people, they will be like,” Oh, this type of reminds me of my father’s relationship … there is something that people can associate with. “

Steller said I always felt “very warm and welcoming as a festival of me, and I know that my father loved her.” Steller and Mira It is the very upper West Side, New York, the West Side Festival, New York, with which I also grew up. So it is just a kind of surrealism, in fact, to be here at this moment of time to show this film. “