It's Radner's voice-especially when describing her struggles with food, fame, and men-that shines brightest.

It's such an altogether perceptive work of both biography and criticism, and so thoroughly researched, that it's a shame that its more inventive gambits don't pan out.

There's just too much Gilda greatness - on and off camera - to be contained in an 86-minute box.

D'Apolito presents a straightforward biographical documentary with Love, Gilda. She at once mourns the loss of an effervescent life cut short by a cruel disease, and she suggests that Gilda lived her life to the fullest.