Gaga: Five Foot Two

Lady Gaga is 30 years old, a superstar, and a sensitive, gifted artist in GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO. She’s also overworked, overextended, and faced with the frequent physical challenges that come from her commitment to excellence and a years-old hip injury that threatens her well-being. On the bright side, she has the support of her close-knit family and a group of producers, managers, musicians, and experts for whom her welfare is a top priority. Director Chris Moukarbel and team follow the singer-songwriter both when she is Lady Gaga, the professional, and when she is simply Stefani Germanotta, a vulnerable but driven young woman who faces the insecurities, loneliness, and meltdowns that everyone faces. Moukarbel takes his audience to recording studios, to the set of American Horror Story, to video shoots for an impending album, to her grandmother’s house, to a doctor’s office, to a baptism, and all points in between. Mostly, Lady Gaga is engaged in the act of preparation for the many demands on her, and the chaos that occasionally works its way onto her busy schedule. Most affectingly, Stefani Germanotta is hoping to let Moukarbel and her fans see her as she likes to see herself.