Fans of Amy Winehouse, documentaries and the work of Asif Kapadia are in for a treat with Amy, the filmmaker’s meticulously researched film about the singer’s life, career and tragic death. The doc has a new trailer freshly launched. Click below to watch it in full.
With Senna, 2010’s award-winning look at Brazilian F1 legend Ayrton Senna, Kapadia came at his subject from an outsider’s vantage point. He repeats the trick with the much-loved, much-troubled singer, cutting through the tabloid white noise to get to the heart of what made Amy Winehouse tick – and occasionally, not tick – in her own words. It’ll follow her career and story up to her tragic death in 2011, aged 27.
The official synopsis promises unheard music, as well as a comprehensive rummage through the archives from Kapadia and his research team to unearth unseen footage. "A once-in-a-generation talent and a pure jazz artist in the most authentic sense, Amy wrote and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to analyse her own problems,” runs the rubric. "The combination of her raw honesty and supreme talent resulted in some of the most original and adored songs of the modern era." See for yourself when Amy lands in UK cinemas on July 3.