WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME

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Nick Broomfield’s latest delves into the troubled life and tragic death of singing sensation Whitney Houston, from her gospel-infused childhood to her desperate drug-fuelled demise. As you’d expect from the director of 1998’s Kurt & Courtney, it’s scrupulously researched and assembled, boasting some real lump-in-the-throat archive material. Yet with no fresh access to, say, Houston’s controversial ex-partner Bobby Brown, and Broomfield (here sharing directing duties with Rudi Dolezal) more behind the camera than ever, it misses his trademark bumbling doorstepping. James Mottram