Synopsis
Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM — an unvarnished look at one of the most gifted voices pop music ever produced. Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal assemble it from concert reels, candid footage from her 1999 world tour, and the people who stood closest to Whitney Houston.
The film pushes back on the tidy legend. Behind the voice that moved hundreds of millions of records, it finds a woman pulled apart from the start — the gospel church against the industry, her own family against her marriage to Bobby Brown, her longtime confidante Robyn Crawford against an entourage living off her earnings. The title comes from Houston herself: can I just be me?
Broomfield and Dolezal refuse to pin the ending of early 2012 on a single villain. Instead they trace the toll of being wanted in different directions at once — by the public, the label, the family — until the person at the center starts to disappear. A heavy, honest watch for anyone who grew up on the songs and wants to understand what was underneath them. Stream Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017) online on iFILM.
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