Amy Winehouse in 2010. Her death at 27 revived the 27 club myth for a new generation. Photo / Getty Images
Amy Winehouse in 2010. Her death at 27 revived the 27 club myth for a new generation. Photo / Getty Images
The family of the late Amy Winehouse have withdrawn their support for the much-anticipated documentary of the tragic singer's life, saying it contained "basic untruths".
The feature-length documentary Amy will be released in the UK in July. Yet the family have dissociated themselves from the film, releasing a statement sayingit was a "missed opportunity" and was "both misleading and contains some basic untruths".
The documentary, directed by Asif Kapadia, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. It has promised unheard tracks and unseen archive footage from the Grammy-winning singer, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 aged 27.
Mitch Winehouse, the singer's father, furiously attacked the film, saying it painted him as an "absent father" during her final years. "I was there for her. We were all there every day and Amy phoned me up to seven times a day. From this film there's no impression of that," he told The Sun.
The film, which conducted more than 100 interviews, initially had the full co-operation of the Winehouse family. Yet in the statement they criticise the narrative formed by the testimony of a "narrow sample of Amy's associates, many of whom had nothing to do with the last years of her life".
