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Not many alcoholics have a well documented story of the progression of their disease.

Amy Winehouse is the unhappy exception.

A fine singer, came to her glory and then drank it all away. That and other drugs. But the booze was the main thing.

So this film joins the sad parade of movies about failed careers and premature deaths in show business.

Her career was so well documented, we have a documentary which is hard to watch and a bit too long. The fascination of watching a train wreck seems to have gone into decisions about editing and how to present the story.

Of course, I watched it from another perspective than one who had not experienced the disease.

I had to FF because it was too hard to watch some of it but it would be unfair to downgrade the film because of it.

So it is a 3 out of Netflix5. I would not want to see it again.

Labels: documentary, films