‘Love, Gilda’ Review: An honest and inspiring story of one of the funniest women of all time
In an extremely visceral form of storytelling, director and documentarian Lisa D’Apolito was given the honor of taking Gilda Radner’s old journals and home videos and turning it into a film about her life. Even though Radner’s life was cut short, she lived more lives than most people ever will, and each aspect of her unique life is portrayed in the film.
The film starts off by exploring her life as a child in a well-off family in Detroit in the 1950s. Radner had her first touch of success in a Canadian production of "Godspell," which is where she met Martin Short. One of the most fascinating parts of this documentary is that Radner, in a way, tells her own story through written word and home videos. Many were shocked to find out that Radner and Short were not only creatively entwined, but also romantically.