Director BrooklynSudano looks beyond the mirrorball at the woman she called Mother in 'Love to Love You, Donna Summer.' SXSW
The fabric of modern dance music may be cut from Donna Summer's creative work, but the 1970s queen of the mirrorball saw disco as something of a vehicle to get somewhere else. So we learn in, the new biodocumentary receiving its North American premiere at this week's South by Southwest Film & Television Festival.The film lightly excavates the story of her life and is co-directed by her daughter, actor Brooklyn Sudano, and Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams .
Rowland's interview did not make the film, but Sudano said she was elated at the final product, which illuminated her mother's trauma and healing journey.
Though ambivalent about disco, Summer merely tolerated the role of sex kitten. Her personal self-image was never as sultry. Summer was not necessarily all good girl, either. But after the"Bad Girl" singer found success and still felt empty, she returned to the Christian faith from which she emerged as a young gospel powerhouse.
As Summer says in archive footage, she crossed lines of her own morality first and could not forgive herself. After a foiled attempt at suicide, she was born again. Thus, the stage was set for fans to recoil in horror when Summer reported remarks about Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Her statement about AIDS being punishment for sins was another strike against her.
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