From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the treatment.

If you've seen the terrific new documentary, Love to Love You, Baby,

you'll be thrilled to know that it's co-director

and Donna Summer's daughter, Brooklyn Sedano, is here with me today. First of all, Brooklyn,

thank you so much for doing this. And something I mentioned to you when I saw the film is what

the movie makes clear is your mother was always, like I said to you, a cabaret performer, that she

always connected

with audience first and foremost. Yes, no, I think that's one of the things that made her unique,

was that she took her foundations in the theater and really brought them to her stage shows.

But even more so, she really intrinsically was a character actor in some

ways. And I think she saw every song as its own individual monologue and approached each

song with the emotion and the character that it needed in order to connect to the audience

in a deeper way. You're talking about her ability to sort of bring that storytelling to songs, but it's also

the power of the eyes, and you start the film off with us seeing those eyes and all those

who know those album covers and we're always aware of her looking at us. I think that's part of the connection

a lot of us who grew up with a feel, even though we didn't know her, that she seemed to be

communicating in the way that an actor would. You know, it was really important when we had that

opening shot. Roger, Ross Williams, and I, who I directed the film with, it was like, okay, this is it.

Because we really went back and forth about what the opening should be for a while.

But we knew once we had that, we're like, this is it because this allows people immediately to

understand how this film is going to go and that you really are going to be seeing it through her eyes and through

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