New film digs deep into her life, music and demons
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About two years ago, documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia began interviewing Amy Winehouse’s friends, collaborators and family members in a darkened studio in London. Winehouse had died less than two years earlier, and emotions were still raw. So Kapadia set his camera aside and used only an audio recorder to make them feel more comfortable. “They were very nervous, and there was a lot of guilt,” he says. “It became a bit like therapy. They opened up and talked about things they hadn’t really spoken about to anyone before.”