It would be easy to spin the Amy Winehouse sage as that of a ruined starlet,but this documentary gives us a more interesting one – of a woman who reacted to extreme pressure by trying to vanish• The full UK top 50 so farWe may never be done with Amy Winehouse. A tabloid titbit in life has become a broadsheet thinkpiece in death. This is thanks, in part, and to Asif Kapadias thoughtful and moving documentary about the late jazz singer.
Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning aged 27 after a short,chaotic career. She was a singer and songwriter whose reaction to fame – drugs, alcohol, and a disastrous and passionate adore affair with her husband,Blake Fielder-Civil – became a accepted fascination. She was also simultaneously a deep talent and a cheap gag; someone it was OK to ridicule because her calamity was so outsized it appeared ridiculous.
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Source: theguardian.com