On a Zoom call in November 2021, just a few weeks shy of her twenties, I asked Eilish why someone in her position would ever want to be the subject of a documentary, let alone one that was never intended to be sponsored content. But it’s not until after Eilish’s heart breaks - her whirlwind existence slowing into a perfect storm of teenage angst as the opening piano chords of a special new song creep over the soundtrack - that we truly get to see her grow through her music. And that’s exactly what allowed Cutler to craft “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” a raw but ecstatic vérité portrait of an artist coming of age in the eye of a hurricane.Īt a time when pop star bio docs have been weaponized into feature-length commercials, Cutler’s film shimmers with great sensitivity and ecstatic purpose it’s an 140-minute epic about a girl with great parents trying to figure out who she is while simultaneously becoming one of the most recognizable people on Earth. Cutler into their lives and gave him final cut. Odds are, Eilish would have felt painfully exposed even if an Oscar-nominated filmmaker hadn’t been embedded in her house and documenting her every doldrum, but that’s exactly what she and her family signed up for when they invited “The War Room” producer R.J. 'Loki': Everything You Need to Know About Marvel's Disney+ Series VOD Success for 'Grinch' and 'Elf' Suggests a New Streaming Future for Holiday FavoritesĮmmy Predictions: Best Actress in a Comedy Series - The Smart Money's on Smart
How 'West Side Story' Breakout Mike Faist Made an Iconic Role His Own, 'Expectations Be Damned' It was almost as if her sawtoothed vulnerability had been twisted into her ultimate weakness. And while touring allowed her to sublimate that hurt into serrated electro ballads while thousands of other teenagers sang along in full-throated support - the crowds helping to diffuse Eilish’s overcharged emotions - a recent ankle injury during a show in Milan had taken that outlet away from her when she needed it most.
But for a minute in the middle there, she was just another teenager who felt betrayed and ashamed by a world that had been waiting to slip through the slightest crack in her armor.įor starters, Eilish had just suffered her first major breakup. Six months later, that same LP would see her become the youngest artist to ever sweep the Grammys. Six months earlier, the Soundcloud supernova had exploded into a major recording artist with the release of the double platinum debut album that she and her older brother Finneas had recorded together in his childhood bedroom. It was the fall of 2019, and 17-year-old Billie Eilish was at one of the lowest moments of her very enchanted life so far.
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