There are just a few weeks left before Liza Minnelli celebrates her 80th birthday – the daughter of two sacred Hollywood monsters, Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, was born in Los Angeles on March 12, 1946. It could be said that the documentary directed by Bruce David Klein, Liza Minnelli: The Incredible and Absolutely True Storycompleted in 2024 and now released in Portuguese theaters (later it will be available on the Zero em Comportamento platform), corresponds to a kind of self-portrait of someone who wanted to come to terms with the memories of a life marked by many tribulations, although always lived under the spotlight of fame and success.
In truth, everything happened in a less premeditated way. As Klein explains in an interview available in the film’s press dossier, both he and his producer, Alex Goldstein, didn’t quite know how to approach someone they admired, but who, for all intents and purposes, had moved away from the artistic scene. A brief appearance, in his own character, in Sex and the City 2 (2010), was, after all, the sign of a cinematic career that was closed, finding only a few “derivations” in the television spaceparticularly in the series Arrested Development (2003-2013). Also in the musical domain, Liza’s latest album, Confessionsappeared in 2010, and seemed to correspond to a very personal balance, especially themes from authors (Sammy Chan, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, etc.) who had punctuated all of her work as a singer.
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