This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous

Name: This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 3, 2017
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 61

2017

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| Release Date: February 3, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous portrays the intimate journey of Gigi Lazzarato, a fearless young woman who began life as Gregory Lazzarato, posting beauty and fashion videos to YouTube from his bedroom, only to later come out as a transgender female to an audience of millions. Directed by two-time Oscar® award winner Barbara Kopple, theThis is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous portrays the intimate journey of Gigi Lazzarato, a fearless young woman who began life as Gregory Lazzarato, posting beauty and fashion videos to YouTube from his bedroom, only to later come out as a transgender female to an audience of millions. Directed by two-time Oscar® award winner Barbara Kopple, the film provides a raw and revealing look into a life that never compromises happiness, and spotlights a family’s unwavering and unconditional love for a child.… Expand

Director: Barbara Kopple

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Feb 3, 2017

There’s a chilling resonance to the moment where Gigi reflects on the legacy of German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Nazis that attempted to silence his groundbreaking advocacy for gay and transgender rights. Read full review

Noel Murray

Feb 1, 2017

Kopple and her team have combed through the hours and hours of those dispatches that Gigi has sent into the world, and from them they’ve pieced together a story very much worth telling. Read full review

Kimber Myers

Feb 2, 2017

With This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, acclaimed filmmaker Barbara Kopple retains her signature intimacy and freedom from judgment of her subject. Read full review

Abbey Bender

Feb 7, 2017

Anonymous haters on YouTube can say Gigi is fake, but her enthusiasm here, and the enthusiasm her teen girl fans have in meeting her, is totally genuine. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Feb 2, 2017

Adam Wescott and Scott Fisher, Ms. Lazzarato’s management team, are executive producers for the film, and to a great extent “This Is Everything” seems to follow an agenda set by them in tandem with the movie’s subject, which is largely commendable in its pitch for acceptance and against bigotry. Read full review

IndieWire Jude Dry

Feb 9, 2017

Gigi is an invaluable role model to young trans people in her ferocious courage and undeniable fabulousness, but the film is little more than a celebration of that. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Feb 2, 2017

This glossy doc uncovers very little conflict or depth in a personality more colorful than it is interesting, at least as presented here. Read full review

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