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Synopsis: A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
Director(s): Asif Kapadia
Production: A24 Films
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 50 wins & 44 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
2015
128 min
$7,851,076
Website
1,261 Views


she made her mind up.

And I found it difficult

to stand up to her.

She would say, "Oh, Mum,

you're so soft with me."

"I can get away with murder.

You should be tougher, Mum."

Well, I just accepted it.

I wasn't strong enough

to say to her, "Stop."

I met another woman when

Amy was about 18 months old.

We worked together.

We were having an affair.

But another eight or nine years

were to pass before I left home.

I was a coward.

But I felt that Amy was over it

pretty quick.

When Amy was a teenager,

13 or 14,

she was being taken

to the doctor's

and she was on antidepressants.

What is it about men

Amy used to always say to me

that that was her dream, really,

to do those sorts of shows,

to play in jazz clubs

to small audiences.

She had one of the most pure

relationships to music,

such an emotional

relationship to music.

Like she needed music

as if it was a person,

and that she would die for it.

Let me read this.

Oh, my God.

Uh, and the winner...

and the song is Stronger Than Me

by Amy Winehouse

and Salaam Remi.

Let's give it up!

This is me, isn't it?

Right here.

Wow!

I don't believe this.

Um, thank you, Salaam.

There's no picture of him,

but Salaam is the most

inspirational producer

I've ever worked with.

And he has that unique skill

of not just having

the most appropriate beat,

but also, um,

drawing the artistry out.

And I guess that's the story

of this song.

- And I wanna thank...

- What I allowed her to do

was to really just

put her wit into her songs.

When I heard her sing

in front of me,

I could tell she was really

like a jazz singer.

She had the stylings

of a 65-year-old jazz singer

who knew the ropes up and down.

It was, like, "Okay, if this is

what you are when you're 18",

then what are gonna be

when you're 25?"

We're now joined by Mos Def

in the backstage area.

Thanks for coming and taking

time out and chatting to us.

I heard they was doing

something, so I came down.

I became aware of Amy in 2004.

I was out in England.

I'm a big jazz fan and I really

liked what she was doing.

I thought it was unique,

it was edgy and sincere.

And that's the thing

I liked most about Amy,

is that she didn't have

any airs. She was real.

I had a chance to meet her

while I was here,

and we hit it off.

We became fast friends.

She was just a charming,

sweet lady.

I had a bit of a crush on her,

to be honest.

She was raw,

she was fast with a blue joke,

could drink anybody

under the table,

wasn't afraid to roll a smoke,

had a big giant laugh,

and was just a sweetheart,

you know?

You don't seem that bothered

about everything.

D'you know what I mean?

You have some artists

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