Amy Winehouse (Photo : Facebook)
The family of the late singer Amy Winehouse strongly objected to the new documentary about the late singer's life. The movie is entitled "Amy" and is scheduled to premiere at next month's Cannes Film Festival.
"The Winehouse family would like to disassociate themselves from the forthcoming film about their much missed and beloved Amy," Winehouse's relatives said in a statement given to Us Weekly. "They feel that the film is a missed opportunity to celebrate her life and talent and that it is both misleading and contains some basic untruths."
The family has further accused that the movie's script is based loosely on a few of Winehouse's associates, many of whom she was not in touch during her last years. The film indicates that enough was not done for the "Back To Black" hit maker who died at the age of 27 due to alcohol poisoning in 2011.
The family was furious over the movie as the singer's father Mitch Winehouse is shown majorly as an absent father who did not help her daughter deal with addiction problems and rather pushed her on stage for stardom. The family also felt that the movie is targeting their addiction charity set up as more of a profit venture.
The family of the singer is also contemplating to sue the director and the producer of the movie if the same cut gets premiered in the upcoming film festival, Hollywood Reporter stated.
The movie was directed by Asif Kapadia and produced by James Gay-Reese. A spokesperson of the film has however claimed that they had Winehouse family's backing when they started and that they had done extensive research on the subject.
The first trailer of the movie was released recently, in which the earlier days of the singer's career was showed. Deemed as a member of notorious club 27, the singer was found dead in her apartment a day before she made a world record for the most number of simultaneous hit songs to enter the UK singles chart by a woman.
