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Love, Gilda
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Wikipedia article
'Love, Gilda' is a 2018 American-Canadian documentary film directed and co-produced by Lisa Dapolito. The film is about the life and career of American comedian Gilda Radner. 'Love, Gilda' premiered on April 18, 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival and was limited released in the United States on September 21, 2018. The movie received widespread acclaim from critics.
Synopsis
The film presents the life and career of Gilda Radner through her own eyes using her diaries, audio tapes, home movies and interviewing some of her closest friends at that time.[https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/julie-hinds/2018/09/20/filmmaker-love-gilda-gilda-radners-legacy-documentary-saturday-night-live/1347712002/ Love, Gilda' filmmakers were guided by Gilda Radner's legacy"], 'Detroit Free Press'
Cast
* Gilda Radner (archive footage)
* Amy Poehler
* Melissa McCarthy
* Bill Hader
* Chevy Chase
* Janis Hirsch
* Lorne Michaels
* Jordan Walker-Pearlman
* Laraine Newman
* Maya Rudolph
* Stephen Schwartz
* Alan Zweibel
* Rosie Shuster
* Martin Short
* Andrew Alexander
* Anne Beatts
* Robin Zweibel
* Michael Radner
* Paul Shaffer
Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 'Love, Gilda' has an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critical consensus reads: "'Love, Gilda' pays gentle, unequivocal tribute to its subject with more than enough of her genuine spirit to compensate for a lack of critical distance or truly fresh insight." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 74 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
David Fear from Rolling Stone however gave the film two and a half stars out of five, stating: "In terms of both professional best-of moments and personal artifacts (home movies, old pics, those journals and cassette recordings), the filmmaker has a treasure trove at her fingertips; she just doesn't seem to know how to shape much of it, or how to mine it for more than checkpoints and pop-psychological carping about comedy and pain."
Matt Zoller Seitz writing for the website RogerEbert.com gave 'Love, Gilda' three out of four stars and said: "Director Lisa D'Apolito's documentary is at its best detailing Radner's struggle to make her voice heard in a field that she adored, but that wasn't often hospitable to women, even when the individual men in it thought they were being gracious and inclusive." Jason Zinoman from 'The New York Times' called the film "a portrait of a brief and brilliant career" and completed: "Where the movie succeeds best is as an illumination of her charm and spirit. Ms. Radner played eccentric characters with raucous abandon and jangly big-kid physicality, but she also projected a vulnerability that made you care for them. The movie explores some of her insecurities, particularly with regard to her eating disorder, but its tone never strays too far from the light and breezy."
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