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"Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry"
follows the American singer-songwriter's close relationship with
her family, performing on stage, on the road, meeting fans and
collecting five Grammy Awards, the music industry's highest
honours.
Filmmaker R.J. Cutler first met Eilish, known for her unique
sound, when she was 16, describing her as "real and awesome and
easy and quirky and funny and somebody I thought I'd love to
make a movie about".
"It's the story of this ... remarkable figure ... who is
simultaneously going through a kind of artistic arrival ... and
... professional arrival and ... coming of age," he told
Reuters.
Eilish, now 19, and her producing partner brother Finneas are
regularly shown making music together at home, rehearsing songs
such as the theme for the upcoming James Bond movie "No Time To
Die".
"It's very exciting to see how they work together and
collaborate together," Cutler said. "It's very natural."
The film, released on Apple TV+ on Friday, features home footage
of Eilish as a child and shows her working on her chart-topping
album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?". It ends with
her Grammys win last year, when she became the youngest person
to scoop the top four awards in one night.
Cutler said his team had complete editorial control over the
film, which also shows Eilish battling health issues and
learning to deal with fame.
In one scene, she is seen telling an audience: "This is so weird
you guys, I'm nobody. I don't know why you like me."
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by Sarah Mills and
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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