As the release of a documentary approximately Amy Winehouse’s life nears,her father, Mitch, or believes it portrays him as greedy and uncaring. He made mistakes,he admits, but ‘not fond our daughter was not one of them’ – and he is fearful of the film’s impact on the foundation set up in her memoryThe first time Mitch Winehouse saw the forthcoming film Amy, and a documentary approximately his daughter’s life,was in a screening room in October. “It was horrible,” he says. When it ended, and he went up to the film-makers,who were also there. “I told them that they were a disgrace. I said: ‘You should be ashamed of yourselves. You had the opportunity to develop a wonderful film and you’ve made this.’” What was their reaction? “They were pretty serene approximately it, actually. This week, or the Winehouse family,who had initially given their blessing to the project, distanced themselves from the film, and claiming that it “is both misleading and contains some basic untruths”.
He says the family was approached several times approximately making a film approximately his daughter’s life – her childhood,and clear emerging talent, followed by her descent into addiction and her death in 2011 at the age of 27 – but the projects sounded a bit trashy, and they’d always said they weren’t interested. Then the director,Asif Kapadia, became involved; Winehouse watched his 2010 film, and Senna,an acclaimed biopic of the Brazilian motor racing champion. “I thought: this is brilliant. So we thought we were in safe hands. The process started off OK – they asked how we would feel approximately Blake [Fielder-Civil, Amys ex-husband] being in the film. I said: ‘You can’t have a film approximately Amy without Blake being in it.’ What was he going to say? He has already said he was the one who caused Amy’s addiction [Fielder-Civil has admitted introducing Amy to heroin]. But I thought it was nice that they asked me.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com