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| CNNBrian LowryEven in a boom time for musical profiles, this HBO presentation shines brighter than most. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayWilliams 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. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonIn 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. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThe 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. |
| RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonThe 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe 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. |
| User ReviewBrooklyn_SummerA 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 |
| User ReviewQhasiSuch 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. |
