AMY WINEHOUSE

A la question «A quel point pensez-vous que vous serez célèbre?», Amy Winehouse répondait: «Je ne pense pas que je le serai. Pas du tout. Je pense que je deviendrai folle.»

Célèbre, Amy Winehouse l’est devenue quelques années plus tard, avant de disparaître beaucoup trop vite. Quatre ans après son décès le 23 juillet 2011, le documentaire Amy, attendu en juillet sur les écrans américains (pas de date connue pour la France) revient sur son destin tragique, et ce premier trailer a choisi la sobriété, mêlant des images privées d’Amy Winehouse à des extraits de plusieurs interviews. En 127 minutes, le film permettra de découvrir des performances inédites, des coulisses de tournage de clip et des titres jamais entendus.
Le film est signé d’Asif Kapadia, qui s’était intéressé en 2010 à un autre destin tragique, celui du pilote de Formule 1 brésilien Ayrton Senna, lui aussi décédé brutalement et trop tôt.

AMY WINEHOUSE

Senna director Asif Kapadia’s forthcoming documentary focuses on interviews with parents, friends and ex-husband of singing star Amy Winehouse.
Amy, Asif Kapadia’s documentary on fame, mental illness and Amy Winehouse, has its first trailer.
Backed by the vocal track for Winehouse’s hit Back to Black, the clip shows archive footage of the jazz-pop singer that foreshadows her early death. The teenage Winehouse is shown posing for home videos, recording her Grammy award-winning second album and running from a crowd of paparazzi outside her Camden home. “I’m not trying to be a star or anything other than a musician,” she says.
Kapadia’s documentary charts Winehouse’s story from her childhood in Southgate, north London, to her death from alcohol poisoning in 2011. In similar style to Senna, his 2010 film about the Formula One driver, the director avoids showing his interviewees on screen, and instead mixes audio from new interviews with Amy’s parents, childhood friends and her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, with archive footage.
Implicit in the trailer is the film’s sense of Winehouse as a victim of success. The singer – who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, depression and bulimia – was plagued by the press and shocked by the attention that her bluntly honest songs and remarkable voice attracted.
“I don’t think I’m going to be at all famous,” says a pre-fame Winehouse in the trailer. She became, of course, extraordinarily famous. Her problems became her songs, which became her image, which made her – for better or worse – an icon.

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