Great subject matter, messy movie

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You thankfully avoids a common pitfall of many bio-docs: trapping the story of iconoclast artist in a narrow strain of tropes and motifs without any unique images. Norman Lear may have voiceover narration at times, or a wide variety of talking head segments. But directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady manage to surround that material with a visual integrity, finding invigorating ways to incorporate material that ranges from the mundane to the profound. Despite this effort, Lear’s story is told in such an unwieldy fashion that the pieces never properly coalesce: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/norman-lear-another-version/