2023
TV-MA
HBO Max
1 h 47 m

2023
TV-MA
HBO Max
1 h 47 m

Summary Love 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 v...

Directed By: Brooklyn Sudano, Roger Ross Williams

2023
TV-MA
HBO Max
1 h 47 m

2023
TV-MA
HBO Max
1 h 47 m

Love to Love You, Donna Summer

Name: Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2023-05-20
Duration: 1 min 47 s
Rating: 62
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Michael McKean, Elton John, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, Johnny Carson

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

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CNN

May 19, 2023

Even in a boom time for musical profiles, this HBO presentation shines brighter than most.

By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

May 23, 2023

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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Wall Street Journal

May 19, 2023

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.

By John Anderson FULL REVIEW

RogerEbert.com

May 19, 2023

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.

By Peyton Robinson FULL REVIEW

Variety

Apr 26, 2023

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.

By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Apr 26, 2023

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.

By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Federal Films, Front Row Insurance Brokers, HBO Documentary Films, Motto Pictures, One Story Up Productions, Polygram Entertainment

Release Date May 20, 2023

Duration 1 h 47 m

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Berlin International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

SXSW Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

• 1 Nomination

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Barbra Streisand

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Elton John

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Jimmie 'JJ' Walker

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Johnny Carson

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David L. Lander

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Quincy Jones

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Brooklyn Sudano

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Donna Summer

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Arsenio Hall

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Dionne Warwick

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Merv Griffin

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Josephine Baker

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Giorgio Moroder

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Janis Joplin

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Tom Snyder

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Bruce Sudano

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Mahalia Jackson

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Mimi Sommer

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Amanda Sudano

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