Fame is villain in Winehouse documentary

Asif Kapadia's Amy Winehouse documentary Amy is a slow, tragic zoom out. It begins with the intimacy of home movies and ends in far-away paparazzi footage. Our VIP access has been revoked.

First seen as a bright-eyed 14-year-old girl singing a knockout Happy Birthday, Winehouse gradually recedes from our view as her renown grows, obscured by a blizzard of flashes and a deadening haze of celebrity. Fame arrives like fate: a destiny foreshadowed by Winehouse's self-evident talent and her own ominous misgivings.

"I would go mad," she said of fame before its tidal-wave arrival.