‘I approach it as an actress,’ she explains.
Variety’s Owen Gleiberman describes the film as “an eye-opening portrait of the ambitious, vivacious, yet troubled woman was,” noting that it “takes us up close to Donna Summer: her demons, her desire to be an artist, the sense that when she was ‘Donna Summer,’ it was a character she was playing.”ĭeadline’s Matthew Carey reached a similar conclusion, writing: “The film makes the interesting observation that Summer ‘thought in theater’ and recorded songs as though she were embodying a character. It will be screened at the Doc Edge Festival in Wellington, New Zealand on June 7. Love To Love You, Donna Summer was also screened yesterday (26) at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and tomorrow it’s scheduled for the Hot Docs International Film Festival in Toronto, for which tickets are available here. It was nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival, where it made its US debut in March. The documentary had its world premiere at the Berlinale, formerly the Berlin International Film Festival, in February. 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.Īlong with her close family and friends, the film also features a familiar voice in the trailer, one of Sir Elton John, who recalls the first time her heard Donna.“I remember when ‘I Feel Love’ came on at Studio 54, you just stopped in your tracks, you thought, what is this?” Theatrical screenings 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.
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