Love to Love You, Donna Summer

Name: Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: May 20, 2023
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Donna Summer

2023

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HBO | Release Date (Streaming): May 20, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Donna Summer

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 homeLove 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 footage – often shot by Summer herself. Through a rich window into the surprising range of her artistry, from songwriting to painting, Love to Love You, Donna Summer explores the highs and lows of a life lived on the global stage. [HBO]… Expand

Director: Brooklyn Sudano and Roger Ross Williams

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

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Brian Lowry

May 19, 2023

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

John Anderson

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. Read full review

Noel Murray

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

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. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

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. Read full review

David Rooney

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. Read full review

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Brooklyn_Summer

May 31, 2023

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

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Qhasi

May 24, 2023

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 firSuch 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.… Expand

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