Love to Love You, Donna Summer

Disregard the negative reviews. Ms. Summers' family has given the world a lovely gift in this beautiful and intimate doco! I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know more about this icon about which so little is known. For example: I was surprised to learn that she wrote most of her own songs! I highly recommend watching if you are a Donna Summers fan as it provides a glimpse into both her professional life and private life with her beautiful family. The home movies and archival footage are blended seamlessly with insights from friends and family members. And the present-day footage is authentic and moving.

This is such a great documentary about the incredible Donna Summer. I love seeing her with her family. She was a trailblazer and changed the music scene. Donna's voice was so powerful and beautiful. She will forever remain in our hearts. I'm glad the directors chose to focus on Donna as a human, mother, wife and friend instead of Donna the celebrity. She was a very kind and loving artist and it comes through in this film. I wish her estate would release her recordings she did prior to her passing. I always have great memories of Donna Summer and she deserves to be recognized as the greatest female vocalist that she is. I love to love you, Donna.

I thought this documentary was great! The filmmakers made great usage of all the archived footage and interviews they had at their disposal. Hearing about Donna Summer's life story and home life was very surprising and introduced so many more layers that I never knew about before. In my opinion, if a documentary does it's job right, it will make you want to look up more information about the artist afterwards. My favorite music documentaries (Searching For Sugarman, A Band Called Death, Zappa, Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All) make you want to look up more about the subject after the film is done. This documentary makes me want to do exactly that, and I love it! If you have a chance to watch this film, do so.

I agree with most of the reviews here. This documentary is slow and boring. There are so many parts that could have been edited out and make it shorter. I have watched a couple of old documentaries in 480p on YouTube about Donna Summer and they are more entertaining and interesting. Even though this one shows things I didn´t know about her, it is still very slow paced. I also think the opening scene was not a smart one. I´ve got confused by the end credits when they showed the name of German writer and composer Harold Faltermeyer ("Beverly Hills Cop"´s Axel F) as Harold Faltermeier and I thought it was an error but that´s his real name. He was advertised in the U. S. as Harold Faltermeyer. Donna Summer was one of the most talented singers and song writers and she deserves a much better biography. I would recommend you better to search on youtube for an old documentary and to also watch her VH1 concert and any other VEVO videos on her official YouTube channel.