Life and premature death Amy Winehouse they seemed like a ready-made script for a movie. At the age of 20, she released the album “Frank”, which immediately gave her worldwide fame. During her short career, she won a Grammy Award six times. Her last album, “Back to Black”, released during her lifetime, is now considered a cult classic.
Unfortunately, the artist's career was interrupted by her sudden death in 2011, when she was only 27 years old. The star died of alcohol poisoning.
Biographical film “Back to Black. The Amy Winehouse Story” she directed Sam Taylor-Johnson. This director was nominated, among others, for the BAFTA award for the production about John Lennon, “The Boy From Nowhere”. She also made a famous film “50 shades of Gray”. Matt Greenhalgh (“Nowhere Boy”) is responsible for the script of the film.
The film presents the artist's musical journey to the top. We will be able to see how Amy Winehouse went from London's crazy and colorful Camden High Street to the place where we watched her as an international star. It will also be a chance to find out what the price of fame is and how Amy perceived her career and show business.
The production has already been seen by Tyler James, a close friend of Amy Winehouse, who lived with her until the singer's death.
“I didn't expect the movie to be realistic and very accurate, but it was worse than I thought. It was terrible, the movie didn't do her justice. They skimmed through her life, leaving out large parts of it. There was so much more that could have been said that would have made for a better and a more complete picture of who Amy was. The film was disconnected from her life and there were many inaccuracies in it,” James said in an interview with The Sun.
“She was shown to be taking Class A drugs before she even met Blake, which is completely wrong. The film is generalized, vague, and doesn't make any sense. I didn't like how her character was often misread and portrayed, for example, at the beginning of her career she was very self-confident on stage. It's not true, Amy wasn't like that, she wasn't conceited. It's also not true that she asked for rehab,” said James, who met Winehouse when they were both pregnant. 12 years each.
The singer praised the actress playing the main role Marisa Abela. He said that she did everything to faithfully portray Amy Winehouse.
“I really wish she had written an autobiography in her lifetime so that she could take control of her story. I hope that one day there will be a biography that shows the real Amy and tells her whole life story. The world deserves to know what the real Amy was like.” Amy, because she really was one in a million,” the artist concluded in an interview with The Sun.