Amy Winehouse biopic gives you all the details you’ll recognize from the singer’s tragically short life – but not much beyond that
That voice, all nasal whine and cigarette rasp. The raven-wing eyeliner. That signature hairdo, perfectly coiffured yet disheveled, a beehive mid-colony collapse. It was always easy to recognize Amy Winehouse, the jazz revivalist whose sultry, sardonic, soulful songs made her an unlikely megastar. Taking its title from her second and final critically-acclaimed blockbuster album, music biopicIt’s the early 2000s, a time when girl power and casual homophobia went hand in hand.
Weirdly, there’s something very Americanized about this very British musical story. All of Winehouse’s influences are presented as being from the USA, and director Sam Taylor-Johnson goes out of her way to make vocal comparisons to Lauryn Hill.
Take Winehouse’s career-defining first shows at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club: Unless you know how important a venue that is in music history already,does nothing to inform you. If you do know her story, then the omissions mount up, like no mention of the catastrophic gigs where she was too drunk to sing, and or the extremely generous portrayal of her dad/manager Mitch by Marsan.
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