This profile on Amy Winehouse, an Oscar winner for Best
Documentary, is watchable though not all that compelling and struck me as a particularly
unremarkable rise and fall documentary story (a descent into booze and pills, personal
demons channeled into art, middle class angst, daddy issues, etc., etc.) of
a talented songstress performing substandard jazz numbers. The film is more or
less composed exclusively of home video footage which in and of itself is no
small achievement for a nonfiction film.
*** out of ****
