Back to Black
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Run Time: 122 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Eddie Marsan, Jack O'Connell, Juliet Cowan, Lesley Manville, Marisa Abela
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
“There are other, tougher, bleaker ways to put Winehouse’s life on screen – but Abela conveys her tenderness, and perhaps most poignantly of all her youth, so tellingly at odds with that tough image and eerily mature voice.” ~ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian