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After offering their full backing for the upcoming documentary AMY, the Winehouse family is now distancing themselves from the film because of the way they are portrayed. The Asif Kapadia-directed film is set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month and features interviews from over 100 people that were close to and worked with Amy.
The family now says that the movie does not depict how much they tried to help her through her condition and paints her father Mitch as absent and someone who has used the Amy Winehouse Foundation to line his pockets. They are considering taking legal action because of this portrayal.
The narrative is formed by the testimony of a narrow sample of Amy’s associates, many of whom had nothing to do with her in the last years of her life. Counter views expressed to the filmmakers did not make the final cut.
Aside from “basic untruths” and omitted interviews that tell the other side of the story concerning certain subjects, the family also claims the documentary ignores the negative role played by ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil in her life.
AMY is set to hit theaters in the UK and Ireland on June 3.
(PEOPLE)
UPDATE: In a recent interview with The Guardian, Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse admits that even though the family is not pleased with how the film turned out, they will not be taking any legal action. But the family does fear that the film will have a negative effect on not only Amy’s image but on the foundation in her name.
Read the full in-depth interview with Amy’s father here.
Watch the trailer below:
