"Whitney" explores the culture of the singer's talent through her mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, and her childhood in New Jersey. (Photo: Miramax) [19659008] When Whitney Houston died in 2012, the news was both incomprehensible and expected. After a long public decline in his health, his personal life and his music, as well as a troubling struggle with drugs that was played on tabloid covers and in infamous interviews, it was up to both inevitable and tragically tragic. She remains one of the most successful singers of all time, an absolute central and cultural icon. For someone who is so successful, what could have gone so bad?
Not less than an Oscar-winning documentarian, Kevin Macdonald, who has been carrying out terrorist attacks and poignant expeditions ("One Day in September," "Touching the Void"), to address the issue. Houston's life story about the movie. His "Whitney" is daring both emotionally and aesthetically, and although it's his rendition, he's getting some sort of truth about Houston that the public has never known before.
The help in the task is a cadre of his close friends and trusted allies, including his mother, Cissy Houston; her ex-husband, Bobby Brown, and his former brothers Gary Garland and Michael Houston. It has been reported that some members of the Houston family are upset by the documentary, which is raw and revealing. His brothers are particularly candid about the party on the road and the fight against drug addiction that they share with their late sister.
Macdonald carefully explores the parts of Whitney's life that we know. We witness the culture of his immense talent by his mother, his childhood in New Jersey and his father's political career. Carefully supervised and managed, she has had tremendous success. Like most stars, she was harbaded by rumors about her love life, including her baduality, and the film's subjects confirm Whitney's queerness and her relationship with her friend Robyn.
Accounts Begin to Diverge Macdonald simply lets subjects declare their truth. But an image emerges from a woman who used substances as a coping mechanism and just did not want to stop. Most of the images, taken from personal interviews and videos, are painful, and some of the most devastating stories relate to her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, who grew up with her parents on the roads and died just three years later. his mother
. time, we seek answers, for the why. She was so talented, beautiful and successful, what was her pain? Late in the film, Macdonald lays out a theory through the testimony of family and friends of badual abuse at the hands of an aunt, singer Dee Dee Warwick, who died in 2008. This confession is a kind release, but it does not completely explain everything. The answers are never easy, especially with a woman, an artist as complex and unique as Whitney Houston. And while "Whitney" portrays all the ups and downs of her life with startling honesty, much of what we withdraw is how special she was.
& # 39; Whitney & # 39; Four stars out of four stars [19659010] Rated R; language, drug content
2 hours
Opens with projections Thursday night
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