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For a destination that has drawn music lovers from across the globe to its mythical musical environment for decades, Camden should get ready for an even bigger influx of fans after Camden.
From meeting the love of her life to recreating her Grammy triumph, filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson breaks down a handful of key scenes with IndieWire.
It’s early 2023 and, in a film studio in west London, the production crew on Back to Black are attempting to recreate a pivotal moment in the career of Amy Winehouse: the singer’s chaotic appearance on the Pyramid Stage at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival. She’s riding high from the long-tail success of her second album, 2006’s Back to Black, but up there on the main stage, she’s wobbly and wobbling, slugging booze as she shouts to the audience about her fella, Blake, currently incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Pleasure.
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic suggests that the singer’s desire for a baby was the main source of her suffering. It’s a gendered simplification that exonerates the forces that killed her
IN FOCUS: The director and stars Marisa Abela, Eddie Marsan and Jack O’Connell talk to Craig McLean about auditioning, shooting in Camden, and why we shouldn’t be referring to this polarising film as a biopic