Amy Winehouse’s biopic premiered at Cannes this weekend and the critics are ready to have their say.  The film, which tells Winehouse’s story from her early days right up until her death from alcohol at age 27, includes archive footage and interviews with Winehouse’s collaborators, friends and loved ones.

Amy Winehouse
Amy hits theatres in the UK this July.

"I don't think I'm going to be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it," a young Winehouse can be heard saying in a particularly ominous clip.

So how is the movie faring in terms of accuracy? So far, a number of claims have been raised against the film’s creators.

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According to Sky News, the Winehouse family claimed the documentary contains allegations against them and the singer's management that are "unfounded and unbalanced". Mitch Winehouse, Amy's father, said he wanted to dissociate himself from the film.

Kapadia - the acclaimed director of Senna, about the Brazilian Formula 1 driver - said: "It wasn't the intention to upset anyone but just to show what was going on in her life.“

The film’s producer, James Gay-Rees, agrees: "It's very hard. It's his daughter at the end of the day, and it's his right to have those feelings about it."

But, he added: "We were very objective about the film. We were asked to make the film. We went in with a blank piece of paper and did a lot of research for a couple of years and this is our finding from the research.

"So we think it's balanced."