It’s all out there. Upon the release of Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Selena Gomez is “excited and relieved” to share her story, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
03.11.2022 - 23:29 / deadline.com
The American Film Institute’s AFI Fest got underway in earnest Wednesday at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with the world premiere of the Apple TV+ documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, where the star walked the red carpet and participated in a post-screening Q&A (which AFI asked me to moderate) joined by the film’s director and co-writer Alex Keshishian.
In the nearly four decades this fest has taken place I can’t really recall the last time its opening-night gala started out with a docu, much less one focused on a music star/actress. But then this movie is not your average portrait of a pop icon as it focuses less on the music, and far more on the mental health crisis of its subject, her other medical problems such as battling lupus and a kidney transplant, plus the “psychotic break” that forced her to cancel the rest of her 2016 “Revival” tour and check into a psychiatric hospital.
This kind of cinematic effort can be used by stars to sell books, tours, albums, but that is clearly not what interests the filmmaker or Gomez. In fact, Keshishian vowed after making the Madonna film Truth or Dare 30 years ago that he would never again make another music docu. He noted in last night’s Q&A that he is proud he has kept his word as, rightly, he does not see this as a music docu at all. It is more a piercing look at someone’s cry for help, subsequent but continuing recovery, and hope it can be a vehicle to help others who may find their own mental health in peril. In fact, the opening graphic warns specifically of the subject matter and offers an Apple website to go to if a viewer feels the need. You immediately get the idea this may be darker than most films in the genre.
This is not say there aren’t lighter moments.
It’s all out there. Upon the release of Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Selena Gomez is “excited and relieved” to share her story, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
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, directed by Alek Keshishian, on Apple TV+. The film is a moving, vulnerable look into life, filmed between 2016 and 2020—it starts with her Revival album tour, moves through lupus recurrences and her kidney transplant, and follows her comeback with “” and its ensuing grueling promotion schedule.Ultimately, My Mind & Me is a vivid portrait of a young woman coming into her own agency, making mistakes, succumbing to inner demons at times, and then finding her own way out. By the end, audiences learn much about her early life and the pressures she puts on herself to stand for something bigger than she is—and how that pressure can often be too much.
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