Love, Gilda is a biographical documentary about the life, career, and death of Gilda Radner. The format is relatively conventional- talking head interviews, archival footage, and some home movies- but the access to Radner's personal papers and footage is extensive and incredible as is how honest and emotional the portrait it paints of the individual. Radner, essentially, narrates the film herself as the director Lisa D'Apolito utilizes the audiobook for Radner's memoir. It all is woven gently together into a caring, thoughtful, and dimensional portrait of one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the 20th century.
The format is traditionally chronological but Radner's contagious, effervescent, and resilient spirit come through. What we see is not a run down of her IMDB but a dynamic comedic talent struggling with the demands of show business and the desire for a partnership and family. A feminist who blazed the way for comedians who came after but one who didn't do it with rhetoric or hard political stances but perseverance and the power of her art.
An inspiring and moving film about the life of one of the greats.
See It.
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