Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind | |
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Directed by | Laurent Bouzereau |
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Cinematography | Sean Hill Travers Jacobs Toby Thiermann Steven Wacks |
Edited by | Jason Summers |
Music by | Jeremy Turner |
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Distributed by | HBO Max |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind is an American documentary that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.[1] It premiered on HBO Max on May 5, 2020, and is available to stream on Hulu and other streaming platforms.[2] It was directed by Laurent Bouzereau and produced by Nedland Media, Amblin Television, and HBO Documentary Films. Producers include Bouzereau, Manoah Bowman, and Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner. It is rated TV-14.
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind has a 78% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though it sheds little new light on the case, What Remains Behind paints a loving portrait of a starlet and mother gone too soon."[3]
Some reviewers, including those from The New Yorker, The Guardian and CNN, noted Wood's conflicted psyche and the paradox of her death.[4][5][6] Others, including Vanity Fair and the Los Angeles Times, felt the documentary's primary focus was to quell rumors that Wood's widower Robert Wagner was involved in her death.[7][8][9][10][11][12]