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SummaryLove to Love You, Donna Summer is an in-depth look at the iconic artist as her voice and artistry takes her from the avant-garde music scene in Germany, to the glitter and bright lights of dance clubs in New York. A deeply personal portrait of Summer on and off stage, the film features a wealth of photographs and never-before-seen home video foot... Read More

Love to Love You, Donna Summer

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62
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
62
67% Positive
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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May 19, 2023
80
CNN
Even in a boom time for musical profiles, this HBO presentation shines brighter than most.
May 23, 2023
70
Los Angeles Times
Williams and Sudano don’t try to sell their audience on Summer as a musician, because the music itself still does that. This is more a portrait of a passionate artist who kept pushing herself and reinventing herself — sometimes at the expense of those who loved her, at home and on the radio.
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May 31, 2023
10
Brooklyn_Summer
A documentary that explores the lesser known part of Donna summer, although it does not focus on her music in depth, it focuses on her and the problems she had to face
Sep 25, 2023
5
alanpotter17
Criei muita expectativa para esse documentário da Dona Summer, e depois de sair meio decepcionado da sessão da Whitney Houston, esperava encontrar aqui algo mais visceral, o que claramente não ocorre. A começar que o filme tem uma série de problemas narrativos, mas destaco principalmente a falta da ordem cronológica, inclusive com muitos momentos sem a devida legenda temporal, e bem como um roteiro bem bagunçado, incapaz de criar um fio condutor para sua personagem. nesse sentido, documentários recentes como da banda "Wham" ou do "Michael Fox" poderiam ensinar este aqui como se faz. Assim, o roteiro vai tentando enaltecer uma imagem da Summer que, sinceramente, é totalmente redundante e apelativo. Várias vezes somos bombardeados por frases que inclui o pioneirismo dela, e repito, não é que não seja verdade, mas ao navegar entre a propaganda e ancorar-se, em muitos momentos, unicamente em suas músicas, o filme perde a oportunidade de mostrar o lado humano, uma vez que o lado artístico e histórico todos nós já conhecemos. Tirando a relação com a filha, tudo o mais está muito artificial e plastificado. Uma pena que o retrato no cinema dessa grande artista esteja cheio de falhas, pois as músicas empolgam verdadeiramente, Como um todo, temos um filme com uma trilha impecável, com uma explosão de carismas quando vemos ela falar em público, sabemos que estamos ali diante de uma pioneira, e é honroso saudar produções que abracem essa memória viva. Por outro lado, a edição não ajuda, e muito da narração em off, mais preocupada em enaltecer do que esclarecer, em muito se deve à linha condutora do roteiro, que não sabe, aparentemente, o que fazer com o material, se perdendo na arte de construir um fio condutor, como se estivesse aprontando um documentário da Donna Summer de forma burocrática, o que é uma pena.
May 19, 2023
70
Wall Street Journal
In addition to the disco rhythms, glitzy fashions and alarming hairstyles, Love to Love You, Donna Summer might strike a nostalgic nerve with how natural, funny and forthcoming its subject is.
May 19, 2023
63
RogerEbert.com
The strength of the film is its heart, and Summer’s relationships are used not only narratively, but structurally. With frequent narration from Summer’s daughters, and a heavy focus on their childhoods with a loving but distant mother, their desire to understand her beyond her parenthood and into her personhood is the the movie’s foundation.
Apr 26, 2023
60
Variety
The interviews are illuminating; Summer’s family members speak of her with complicated reverence, and with an appreciation for the currents of despair that she nurtured in private.
Apr 26, 2023
50
The Hollywood Reporter
The doc is stuffed with great archive material. But it largely squanders an ideal platform through which to reaffirm the subject’s vital place in pop music history and reclaim disco as a genre whose influence has never waned.
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May 24, 2023
5
Qhasi
Such a disappointment. This is why family should not be at the helm of the retelling of an icon's story. Because they always have the selfish need to use the story to reclaim the person they knew away from the spotlight. Such is the case with this documentary. It has it's moments. But fir the most part, Donna Summer is painted as a reluctant disco queen. What's even more shocking is how little regard is paid to the genre itself considering the subject. They don't even delve into the decline of disco and what it meant for countless artists who se careers either ended or had to be reimagimed. All in all this is a lost opportunity of a film.
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May 20, 2023
1 h 47 m
TV-MA
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
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