A biopic about Amy Winehouse has been slammed by her family ahead of its Cannes film festival premiere.
Considered one of the most talented artists of her generation, Winehouse struggled with drug and alcohol problems throughout her career. She died of alcohol poisening in July 2011 at the age of 27.
The film is the work of British director Asif Kapadia, who won a BAFTA for his documentary on the late Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna.
Winehouse’s father complains that the doc offers a black-and-white portrait, treating him, his daughter’s former manager and her ex-husband as villains.
“What they’ve tried to do is they’ve tried to do a film which is a Hollywood blockbuster. They’ve forgotten it’s a documentary, so there’s a hero, a villain, me – in the main – and Raye (Amy’s manager) and Blake (Amy’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil), obviously, and there’s the heroine who dies at the end, which is Amy. I mean, they’ve deliberately shown me at my worst, saying things that