![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And whose musical legacy isn’t, perhaps, as recognised as it deserves to be. ![]() From a straitlaced, gospel-singing upbringing in Boston, early brush with fame in Germany and (surprisingly constructed) overnight success with Love to Love You, Baby, through to the highs and lows of her years in the spotlight.īeautifully edited with archive press and performance footage, coupled with personal home movies and loved ones’ recollections, the film really gets under Summer’s skin, bypassing the labels and cliché to reveal her as a rounded, uniquely talented, hugely complex woman who struggled to balance the demands of fame with her own needs. Spans the whole of her life (she died in 2012 from lung cancer). Co-directed by the Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Summer’s youngest daughter Brooklyn Sudano, it This exceptional film about disco diva Donna Summer couldn’t be more different: a loving, insightful and, when it needs to be, honest and deeply personal portrait. Often, it seems, just to fill the vacuum that is Saturday night TV. Music fans get more than their fair share of hackneyed, churned-out TV profiles of pop stars. ![]()
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