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Watch the poignant trail­er for Whit­ney: Can I Be Me

20 May 2017

Words by Amy Bowker

Nick Broomfield’s doc tells the trag­ic life sto­ry of this cel­e­brat­ed solo artist.

This new film biog­ra­phy explores Whit­ney Houston’s leg­endary career, trou­bled mar­riage to Bob­by Brown and rela­tion­ship with Robyn Craw­ford, cre­at­ing a por­trait of the woman behind the superstar.

Direct­ed by Nick Broom­field, the mav­er­ick doc-mak­er respon­si­ble for Big­gie and Tupac and Kurt & Court­ney, Can I Be Me promis­es to offer a clos­er look at the life and death of one of the most cel­e­brat­ed female record­ing artists of all time.

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Com­pris­ing large­ly unseen footage and live record­ings, Broomfield’s film cel­e­brates Houston’s tal­ent while offer­ing deep­er insight into her fas­ci­nat­ing per­son­al life.

“What we tried to do was to explain it from her point of view, so you under­stand what she went through at var­i­ous stages of her life,” he told the Guardian in a recent inter­view. ​“The irony is that the won­der­ful per­son she actu­al­ly was is so much more inter­est­ing than the image that was cre­at­ed around her.”

Whit­ney: Can I Be Me is released in the UK on 16 June. Have a look at the brand new trail­er below up top, and let us know what you think by tweet­ing us @LWLies

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