Modern documentaries have led us to expect more rigour in their storytelling but this, despite its willingness to touch on family discord and so on, keeps a respectful distance that ultimately frustrates.

This HBO production is too long. And I found some of the modern day interviews somewhat self-serving and filled with inconsistencies. On the other hand, who among us can look back on long lives with total emotional and factual recall?

The emotional and often raw documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts, presents a woman of contradictions, an activist who ended a marriage to fulfill her need to make the world a better place