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- TV-14
- HBO
- TV-14
- HBO
Summary The documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau features personal photos, home movies and Natasha Gregson Wagner interviewing friends and family about her mother, Natalie Wood.
- TV-14
- HBO
- TV-14
- HBO
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Season 1 Premiere: May 5, 2020
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Summary The documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau features personal photos, home movies and Natasha Gregson Wagner interviewing friends and family about her mother, Natalie Wood.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
65
67% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Far from a true crime Hollywood whodunit, the big bombshells in this film are emotional. ... Scattered but compelling, a fresh narrative about Wood’s legacy.
Laurent Bouzereau does a fine job of directing this relatively straightforward look at Natalie’s life and times, but it’s Natasha, who was just 11 when her mother died, who is the on-camera guide.
Produced by her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind is lovingly constructed with a child's heart, but falters in places that could have benefited from a journalist's eye. As is, this HBO documentary about the gone-too-soon star feels like a lovely valentine to her mother, but still plays like a Hallmark card where it requires more edge.
An HBO documentary, directed with conventional flair by Laurent Bouzereau, who made it with the cooperation (and therefore, to a degree, the control) of Wood’s family members. ... “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind” is not the definitive, investigative, leave-no-stone-unturned-and-set-the-record-straight chronicle that you’d want, and expect, from HBO. The film’s presentation of the tragedy is perfectly straightforward (and not necessarily wrong), but it leaves you with the same nagging questions that have haunted this case forever.
Like the subject herself, the documentary makes for appealing and congenial company, with lively clips and an abundance of hitherto-unseen homemade material, Still, it’s all more agreeable than it is compelling, despite the romantic melodrama and dreadful ending.
The mystery of her demise looms over this reclamation project like low-hanging storm clouds, and the film suffers from its decision to avoid looking up unless it has to.
Any hope of searing honesty from an interview about [Natalie Wood's drowning death] was dashed by Gregson Wagner’s approach. ... This needed a sharp interlocutor, not a loving daughter. As a straightforward eulogy to Wood, with high calibre contributors (Robert Redford, Mia Farrow) and fond reminisces from family members, it worked. ... But what remained behind was the feeling that we were only being given part of the picture.
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Production Company:
- Amblin Television
- HBO Documentary Films
- Nedland Media
Initial Release Date: May 5, 2020
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
