After “Amy”, the documentary by Asif Kapadia, Amy Winehouse will be in the cinema again thanks to a fiction. “Back to Black” by Sam Taylor-Wood tells the story of the singer and the release of the eponymous album which propelled her onto the international scene.
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The film Back to Black, namesake of the album which made the British singer a star, will be released in France on April 24, 2024 and in the United States in May. The feature film, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, is “an unprecedented insight into the rise of Amy Winehouse and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, Back to Black,” says the feature film’s synopsis. Back To Black (2006) won five Grammy Awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Rehab.
“Told from Amy’s point of view, the film takes an uncompromising look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time.”continues the press release from Focus Features, co-producer of the film with Studiocanal and Monumental Pictures, announcing the date of the American release of the fiction.
A cinematic destiny
Amy Winehouse, who died tragically in 2011 at the age of 27, is played by British actress Marisa Abela, known for the American-British series Industry. Behind the camera, we find Sam Taylor-Wood, the director of Nowhere Boy, another biopic which looks back on the youth of John Lennon, and the music video for I want lovefirst single from the album Songs from the West Coast (2001) by Elton John. The filmmaker directs actor Robert Downey Jr.
In 2015, British filmmaker Asif Kapadia dedicated a documentary to the musical phenomenon. Amy had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
