Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper

Nothing Left Unsaid offers great insight into the lives of its subjects, but its even greater achievement as a film is unanswered questions it provokes in its viewers.

Fascinating, disjointed, moving, tiresome, elegant, tacky, fast, slow. There’s a little something for everyone here.

Touching and intimate, the movie provides a fascinating portrait of a scion. [1/8 Apr 2016, p.101]

While an occasionally revealing portrait, Nothing Left Unsaid doesn’t strive for anything concrete. There is a nostalgic wistfulness to it. Had it been done about someone with a less-storied life, it might have fallen apart, but Vanderbilt has become something of a character herself.

Some of this can be hard going. Even viewers racked by curiosity about the life, loves and early adventures of Gloria Vanderbilt--an audience that may not be as great in number as might be imagined--would have trouble maintaining their fascination while watching prolonged scenes like the one in which Ms. Vanderbilt and son trudge around poking into piles of old belongings in storage. ... The film, directed by Liz Garbus, is alive with color.