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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes 2024

7.3/10
An incredibly candid tell-all of a Hollywood great

In 1966, Elizabeth Taylor and her friends recorded themselves talking about the ups and downs of her life. These candid conversations are the basis of The Lost Tapes, a revealing tell-all that allows Taylor to set the record straight in her own words. Here, you get to see and hear the many parts of Taylor--her romanticism, activism, and passion, as well as her fun banter with the journalists, friends, and lovers who alternately interview her. Of course, the downside to having Taylor and her loved ones narrate a biography is you only get one side of the story, while the thornier parts of her life are skated over. Things like child labor and having to play a married-24-year-old at 16 years old, or being physically abused and suffering a miscarriage, these are things Taylor, and therefore the documentary, shy away from expounding. But while it may not be the definitive documentary on Taylor, it certainly is the most personal and intimate. It also serves as a reminder of how we’d all like to be remembered—in our own and our cherished friends’ words.

Synopsis

Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.

Storyline

Using newly discovered tapes and archival footage, this documentary lets Elizabeth Taylor narrate her life through her own words.

TLDR

See, Netflix? You can make a wonderful biography without AI manipulation.

What stands out

As mesmerizing as Young Taylor was, you have to love her older self, the AIDS activist who yelled, “Bitch, do something yourself!”

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