What is the Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’ about?Īccording to the official blurb, the film will tackle Amy Winehouse’s ( Marisa Abela) ‘vibrant years living in London in the early aughts and her intense journey to fame’. Her friends and her public, however, are yet to be convinced. Back to Black has a pedigree filmmaker-artist behind the camera in Sam Taylor-Wood, a friend of Winehouse’s, and the full backing of Winehouse’s estate, family and record label. The first paparazzi shots of the London shoot melted some corners of social media down into a big morass of rage and horror.īut judging a film by a few out-of-context pap shots snatched around London may yet prove hasty. It’s fair to say that news of a new Amy Winehouse biopic did not go down universally well with the internet when filming started on ‘Back to Black’ in January 2023.
