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What was the point of this movie? Bringing people's attention? Attempt at making fans feel pity for her? If it's the former, she would gain more of it by hosting a talk show or just showing up on scene during some ceremony award. If it was the latter - she made a fool of herself by talking how bad the disease affected her, but at the same time showing her luxurious house, wardrobe, staff that works for her and that she has people at her beck and call whenever she needed them. It just leaves bad taste in the mouth of those who face even worse (terminal) diseases and have to do it with zero to no help or money. The rest of the movie is a chaotic patchwork of different scenes and memories from her life and career. No logic, coherency, theme - nothing to make it interesting or memorable. It could be a great story of humble beginnings, great career, questionable relationship with a much older man and the beginnings of her disease, told in a well constructed way, that at the end of the movie would make us sympathise with this woman. Instead there is only confusion as to why you wasted over an hour of your time watching another diva making a bad show of herself.

I have no idea who thought that a documentary about one of the most horrific parts of human history can be done in such a lazy and disrespectful way. Half of the documentary is about a recruitment of one person to SS, 20% about few French villages and the village Lidice and the rest is about few resistance fighters? Seriously? Death Squads massacred population in Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and later Russia. France or other European countries didn't see even a sliver of terror that was rained on Jews and Slavic population in the Eastern Europe. And yet, this so called documentary forgets all about these atrocities and focuses on absolutely useless and irrelevant things. Where is information on mass shootings, command of the squads, what groups they were operating in, number of victims, mass graves, recruitment of local population to conduct the killings, gas vans, establishment of death camps, because the holocaust by the bullets took too much strain on the German troops, digging out the mass graves and burning the bodies to hide evidence? Where is the story of Podolec Kamienski, Ponary Forest, Babi Yar? What an absolute waste of time to create something that doesn't give any insight into something so horrible, that it should always be remembered.