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Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she’s done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman’s singular journey.
27 May 1923, Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
18 November 1941, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
22 November 1924, Kirksville, Missouri, USA
4 July 1946, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA
21 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
15 November 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
14 July 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
25 March 1921, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
September 20, 2018
The filmmaking in this doc may be conventional, but there's nothing conventional about its subject.
September 21, 2018
Director Susan Lacy has the great advantage of a subject whose life has been extensively documented literally since birth.
September 25, 2018
As seen through Lacy's compassionate lens, the Jane Fonda who lays bare her life in Five Acts is introspective and affable, confident yet forthcoming about her flaws and failures.
September 24, 2018
Although this doc is as conventional as Fonda herself has never been, Lacy tells a terrific story. The film reminds us why Fonda is the only actress of the '60s generation whose name still resonates.
September 24, 2018
It's a shame that the film tries to pack a life of overflowing abundance into a series of boxes that don't quite suit the contents they're designed to hold.
September 23, 2018
An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.
September 20, 2018
An intriguingly human mirror of eight decades' worth of whirling social, political and cultural change.
September 22, 2018
Indomitable
September 21, 2018
Hearing extensively from Fonda -- at 80, vibrant, defiant and introspective -- is more than worth it, as she discusses the various lifetimes she's lived,
September 21, 2018
You do not have to like her work or activism to relate to this or rejoice with her as she takes control of her own narrative.
September 27, 2018
The poignancy of Fonda's point of view on the various topics adds tremendously to the unfolding of this excellent film. Fonda makes no excuses saying, "I am what I am."
September 24, 2018
It's hard to overstate the pleasures of this film or, more precisely, this encounter with its subject.
