Review of Love to Love You, Donna Summer

I was hoping for more of a dynamic presentation and found it rather piecemeal instead. I cannot compare it to a professionally directed and produced product. Some of the personal film clips came across as damaged but they were going to use it anyway. I thought at some points in the production that Brooklyn was just too close to the documentary's subject, her mother to make some clearer decisions. It felt more like we were visiting her at home and she retrieved family photos that were not in order but just for the sake of sharing. We did get to see her vulnerability, so it was intimate in that way. Why was there was no mention of Paul Jabara whatsoever who wrote "Thank God It's Friday" and "Enough Is Enough". And though I haven't seen her sister, Linda Gaines since the 70's but more recently on Facebook, I don't think she was included in this documentary. Donna was diagnosed, then she was gone. Lots of voice over. The ending and her ending felt abrupt.