Documentary 'Whitney' review – a heartbreaking portrait of celebrity self-destruction

"It’s a film principally and poignantly focused on the absence of Whitney, an aching void felt as much in life as in death. Many of us missed Whitney even before she left; this imperfect documentary preys calmly and effectively on that longing" - Guardian writes about a new documentary, Kevin Macdonald’s 'Whitney' newly premiered at Cannes. And iz serves a disturbing revelation - that Whitney Houston, as a child, was sexually abused by her soul-singing cousin Dee Dee Warwick, sister of Dionne. It’s a bombshell that the film guards almost too protectively, planning and pacing its emergence so carefully that its ramifications feel almost curtailed.