Today the long-awaited documentary about the life of Amy Winehouse opens in Spain, 'Amy'by director Asif Kapadia, BAFTA winner in 2010 for his film about the career of three-time Brazilian Formula 1 champion Ayrton Senna. 'Amy' was presented at the last Cannes festival and hit the UK screens on July 3.
After Mitch winehouseAmy's father to disengage from the project and threaten with a complaint for showing course "Misleading material and very basic misrepresentations"Finally, he could see the reason for the anger of Amy's father, and that is that in the documentary they end up showing him with a real villain in what were the last years of the singer's life. When Amy Winehouse was on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia to treat her addiction problems, Mitch appeared on the island with a film crew with the intention of shooting a documentary entitled 'Saving Amy' ('Saving Amy' ). Mitch decided that his daughter did not need this rehabilitation, this being one of the reasons that the problems for Amy grew.
Who was not in a good place was Raye Cosbert, Amy's second manager. It was he who decided to send the artist on tour when she was already going through bad times. Although Amy still defended herself well on stage, these concerts coincided with moments of weakness for the artist, having to face an audience that was already prepared to see her make a fool of herself. Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy's great love, is directly portrayed as a rabble, recalling the moment when the singer's money was used to pay for the silence of a pub owner who Blake and his friends attacked.