Una mirada en profundidad a la vida y la música de Whitney Houston.Una mirada en profundidad a la vida y la música de Whitney Houston.Una mirada en profundidad a la vida y la música de Whitney Houston.
- Premios
- 1 premio y 13 nominaciones
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
- Self - Family Friend
- (as 'Aunt Bae')
- …
- Self
- (metraje de archivo)
- Self - Brother
- (as Gary Garland-Houston)
- …
- Self - First Black Mayor of Newark
- (metraje de archivo)
- (as Ken Gibson)
- Self - Family Friend
- (as Reverend Deforest Soaries)
- Themselves
- (metraje de archivo)
- Self - Whitney's Cousin
- (metraje de archivo)
- Self - Whitney's Cousin
- (metraje de archivo)
- Self - Sister-in-Law
- (as Pat Houston)
- …
- Self - Management Team, 1981-1988
- (as Steve Gittelman)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesMany of the interviews filmed wound up in the cutting-room floor, like Jennifer Hudson's. The director felt that much of its content was banal and uninteresting.
- Citas
[first lines]
Whitney Houston: There were times when I would look up to God and I'd go, "Why is this happening to me?" And then these dreams... I'd have these dreams about being on a bridge and the bridge going back and forth and swaying. There's a big storm coming... I'm always running from this giant. I'm always running from this big man. I know I can make it. I know I can make it. I know I can make it. My mother always says, "Oh, you know, that's nothin' but the devil; he's just trying to get you. He just wants your soul." And in a sense it's true. There's been several times the devil has tried to get me. But he never gets me. And it's funny, when I wake up I'm always exhausted, from running.
- ConexionesFeatured in Entertainment Tonight Canada: Episodio #13.204 (2018)
- Banda sonoraHow Will I Know
Performed by Whitney Houston
Written by Shannon Rubicam, George Merrill, Narada Michael Walden
Produced by Narada Michael Walden
Additional Production & Remix by Jellybean Benítez
Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/Carlin Music Corp
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment
Under licence from Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
Couple of comments: this is the latest movie from Scottish writer-director Kevin Macdonald, who's made several other music documentaries including "Marley" (on Bob Marley) and "Being Mick" (that would be Jagger). Here he brings, with full cooperation of the Houston estate, the life and times of amazing singer Whitney Houston. Because he has full access to footage, we get to see a number of home clips previously unseen (and at times very revealing). Macdonald interviews many people who knew Whitney well or were close to her (as, say, bodyguard). Comments someone: "A lot of people around her saw her like an ATM", wow. Yes, even no-good Bobby Brown gets screen time. When asked to comment on Whitney's drug use in the last years of her life, Brown, without the least of irony or regret, responds "I'm not answering that. Drugs have nothing to do with this documentary". Nice one! In fact the last hour of the documentary detail the sad (and drug-fueled) decline of Whitney. Some of those scenes are heartbreaking, frankly. The parallels between this documentary and the "Amy" documentary a few years ago on Amy Winehouse are pretty obvious: the use of the singer's first name for the documentary's title, the questionable role of the respective dads, the respective "bad" boyfriend/husband, the cringe-inducing last tour (for Whitney in 2009), etc. etc. "Whitney" is strong documentary, no question, but in my view "Amy" was a tad better (perhaps because I like Amy's music better). The talent that Whitney had was undeniable (that voice!), even though some of those 80s songs have not aged well. But the waste of that talent makes the passing of Whitney only sadder.
"Whitney" premiered at this year's Cannes film festival to great buzz, and opened this weekend in 4 or 5 screens in Greater Cincinnati. The Sunday early evening screening where I saw this at was attended nicely (and primarily by African-Americans I might add). If you are a fan of Whitney Houston, or music history in general, I'd readily suggest you check this out, be it in the theater, on VOD, or eventually on DVD/Blu-ray, and draw your own conclusion.
- paul-allaer
- 8 jul 2018
Selecciones populares
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Detalles
Taquilla
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 3.026.351 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 1.265.572 US$
- 8 jul 2018
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 4.605.123 US$
- Duración2 horas
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1