艾米·怀恩豪斯（Amy Winehouse）：歌手去世10年后，新电影“回收艾米”告诉她家人
Amy Winehouse: 10 Years After Singer’s Death, New Film ‘Reclaiming Amy’ Tells Her Family’s Side
在“构架布兰妮·斯皮尔斯”之后仅五个月，好奇的电影的新纪录片《回收艾米》（关于已故的歌手艾米·怀恩豪斯（Amy Winehouse））在检查狗仔队照片后面的肉质女人时也有类似的态度。在年龄，长矛和怀特豪斯（Spears and Winehouse）在2000年代中期的小报头条新闻中占据了公众的揭幕，尽管与长矛不同，怀恩豪斯（Winehouse）的故事以悲剧告终，这位27岁的年轻人于2011年死于酒精中毒。“大约18个月前，我们' d记录了10周年纪念日即将到来，我们只是问自己：“还有其他电影中没有报道的艾米·怀恩豪斯（Amy Winehouse）的故事还有什么可以讲的吗？好奇电影的创始人和“回收艾米”的执行制片人告诉《综艺》。与怀恩豪斯的母亲贾尼斯（Janis）接触后，弗里德曼（Freedman）和好奇的电影联合创始人查理·罗素（Charlie Russell）被邀请到她的家中，参加“喝杯茶”埃德“这里有一个故事，以前没有被告知，这是艾米（Amy）（她的父母）的一个版本，真的不允许分享。”一旦Freedman和Russell确信该项目有腿，他们就会将其投向了英国广播公司（BBC），后者为英国广播公司（BBC）委托。弗里德曼指出：“这是纪录片和事实讲故事的黄金时代。” “有一个巨大的食欲。” “收回艾米”在周五在英国播出，在歌手死亡十周年纪念日。当然，Winehouse的生活在屏幕上曾在屏幕上被淘汰，最著名的是在Asif Kapadia赢得了学院奖的纪录片“ Amy”，该纪录片《 Amy》是对于Winehouse的父母Janis和Mitchell的一些批评，在“回收艾米”（即使是好奇的电影纪录片的标题也可以谴责）。）“我认为[贾尼斯]对叙事感到最痛苦的一件事之一关于她的女儿，因为她去世了，是她来自一个不快乐且不爱的家庭，并以某种方式导致了她的问题n以后的生活，”弗里德曼说。 “我的意思是说，为了使叙事围绕着叙事，这对贾尼斯来说是非常困难的，所以我认为这就是我们试图使用的[家庭照片和视频的档案]，只是画一个女孩的照片 - 贾尼斯（Janis）和米切尔（Mitchell）在70年代都有一个非常普通的家庭。正在获得我们想参加电影中的人们的信任。”他说。 “我们认为这不仅是贾尼斯（Janis），而且实际上那些与艾米（Amy）最接近的人，从未说过。”但是，一个与艾米（Amy）接近的人，他没有出现在电影中，但是是布雷克·菲尔德（Blake Fielder） - 这位歌手的前夫民事被指控向她介绍了硬毒品。 “ [她的婚姻]不是我们在电影中长期存在的事情，因为我认为人们已经听说奥利，”弗里德曼解释说。 “这部电影试图做的是重新定义艾米是谁，她并不是由与布雷克的关系定义的，而这个12个月，您知道，有一个有据可查的毒品斗争。”巧合的是，同时，同时又有当制作“回收艾米”时，好奇的电影还包裹着“卡罗琳·弗拉克：她的生与死”，这是一部第四频道的纪录片，于3月在3月播出的《英国“爱岛”主持人，他在2020年被自杀死亡，同时等待攻击审判。 。弗里德曼说：“我们同时在制作中拥有这两部电影的事实并不是涉及业务的刻意创意策略。但是实际上不知道事物的真实方面。这对于任何纪录片制片人来说都是诱人的，我们希望将这种纪录片质量带入流行的主题。n“回收艾米” - 好奇的电影已经进入了Winehouse项目一年，当时“框架Britney Spears”在2月份上映 - 但是这两部电影在对她自己的生活和性别歧视的审查中相似在媒体的治疗中。“我认为我们就像，'好吧，为什么男性摇滚明星在荣耀的荣耀中走出来 - 为什么几乎被庆祝了，但是有了女性明星，他们经常以某种方式被视为悲惨的人物？''“因此，我认为那里肯定有一个不平衡的事情，无论是布兰妮，艾米还是卡罗琳，都可能以某种方式纠正了这些故事。”
Coming just five months after “Framing Britney Spears,” Curious Films’ new documentary, “Reclaiming Amy,” about late singer Amy Winehouse, takes a similar tack in examining the flesh-and-blood woman behind the paparazzi pictures.
Only two years apart in age, Spears and Winehouse dominated the mid-2000s tabloid headlines with their public unravelling although, unlike Spears, Winehouse’s story ended in tragedy, with the 27-year-old dying from alcohol poisoning in 2011.
“About 18 months ago, we'd clocked that the 10-year anniversary was on the horizon and we just sort of asked ourselves, ‘Is there anything left to tell with the Amy Winehouse story that hasn’t been covered in other films before?’” Dov Freedman, co-founder of Curious Films and an executive producer on “Reclaiming Amy,” tells Variety.
After reaching out to Winehouse’s mother Janis, Freedman and Curious Films co-founder Charlie Russell were invited to her home for “a cup of tea” where they quickly realized “there was a story to be told here that hadn’t been told before, a version of Amy that [her parents] haven't been allowed to share, really.”
Once Freedman and Russell were confident the project had legs, they pitched it to the BBC, who commissioned it for BBC Two. “It’s a golden age for documentaries and factual storytelling at the moment,” Freedman notes. “There’s a huge appetite.” “Reclaiming Amy” airs Friday in the U.K., on the 10th anniversary of the singer’s death.
Winehouse’s life has, of course, been raked over on screen before, most notably in Asif Kapadia’s Academy Award-winning documentary “Amy,” which comes in for some criticism from Winehouse’s parents, Janis and Mitchell, in “Reclaiming Amy” (even the title of the Curious Films documentary can be read as a rebuke.)
“I think one of the things that [Janis] found most painful about the narrative about her daughter since she died is that she came from an unhappy and unloving family and that in some way led to her problems in later life,” says Freedman. “For the narrative to be around that, I mean, that was incredibly difficult for Janis, so I think that's what we've tried to do with that archive [of family photographs and videos] is just paint a picture of a girl — a very normal girl — that came from a very normal family.”
With Janis and Mitchell both in their 70s, and Janis suffering from multiple sclerosis, the COVID crisis presented an acute challenge in getting the film made but, for Freedman, the bigger challenge “was gaining the trust of the people that we wanted to be in the film,” he says. “We felt it was important that it wasn't just Janis, but really those that were closest to Amy, that had never spoken before.”
One person close to Amy who doesn’t appear in the film, however, is Blake Fielder-Civil, the singer's ex-husband, who has been accused of introducing her to hard drugs. “[Her marriage] is not something that we dwell on for very long in the film, because I think people have heard that story,” Freedman explains. “What the film is trying to do is kind of redefine who Amy was and she’s not defined by that relationship with Blake and that 12 months where, you know, there was a well-documented struggle with drugs.”
Coincidentally, at the same time as making “Reclaiming Amy,” Curious Films was also wrapping up “Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death,” a Channel 4 documentary that aired in March about the British “Love Island” presenter who died by suicide in 2020 while awaiting trial for assault. “The fact that we have these two films in production at the same time is not a deliberate creative strategy around the business — far from it,” Freedman says.
“What I would say is we like looking at stories that people think they know, but actually don’t know the real side of things. That's enticing for any documentary filmmaker and we like to bring that documentary quality to popular subjects.”
Equally, Freedman says “Framing Britney Spears” wasn’t a direct influence on “Reclaiming Amy” — Curious Films were already a year into the Winehouse project by the time “Framing Britney Spears” came out in February — but the two films are similar in their examination of each singer’s agency in her own life and the sexism inherent in their treatment by the media. “I think we were like, ‘Well, why are male rock stars who go out in a blaze of glory — why is that almost celebrated but with female stars they’re often seen as this tragic figure in some way?’” says Freedman.
“So I think there was definitely an imbalance there that’s maybe been rectified in some way in re-evaluating these stories, whether it’s Britney, Amy or Caroline.”
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