Introduction to Amy

 

Amy's director, Asif Kapadia, describes his style of documentary filmmaking as 'True Fiction', stating that he makes films not documentaries. To many, this term may appear to be an oxymoron and you may ask yourself how something can simultaneously be true and fictional...WHAT DOES HE MEAN and HOW DOES IT APPLY TO AMY...using real footage he carefully constructs his own narrative through editing and the use of sound, a narrative that, at least in parts, presents his version of events surrounding the singer...

Film critic Mark Kermode suggests, when describing Kapadia's particular talent for documentary filmmaking, that...