14 DAY TRIAL // In 2011, one of the most talented singers and songwriters of our time, Amy Winehouse, died of alcohol poisoning. She was only 27 years old and had been leading a highly publicized struggle with addiction for years.
Ironically, at the time of her death, she had been sober and clean for some time, after promising to her parents following an intervention that she would do her best to kick her addiction. Her relapse cost her her life.
Filmmaker Asif Kapadia has put together footage from Amy’s pre-fame days with images and interviews from her drug-addled years, and the result is a documentary called simply “Amy.” It just got a brand new, extended trailer, and let me just warn you that, if you were a fan of the singer, it would probably help if you had some handkerchiefs nearby.
“Amy” opened at the Cannes Film Festival the other day and is looking at a July release in theaters both in the US and Europe.
The documentary was done with the approval of Amy’s family, but they have had a change of heart since, even saying that they were not happy with the final cut because it didn’t portray Amy in the correct light.
That aside, as you can see from the pull quotes in the trailer, the critics were very impressed with it.
