Kevin Macdonald’s probing documentary about Whitney Houston tries to unearth the factors behind the star’s dramatic decline‘There’s several times the devil tried to get me; but he never gets me…” Since her death in a Beverly Hills bathtub in 2012, the singer Whitney Houston has been the subject of a slew of articles, books, TV shows and (more recently) films, poring over the details of her spectacular rise and fall.
Last year, Nick Broomfield’s unauthorised yet surprisingly sympathetic film Whitney: Can I Be Me used revealing backstage footage from a 90s tour to paint a portrait of an exhausted performer torn between identities – sexual, racial and commercial.Now, Kevin Macdonald, whose impressive directorial CV includes Touching the Void and Marley, enters the fray with an authorised documentary, produced with the assistance of the Houston family and estate, unlocking a wealth of interviews and archive material.
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