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 Woven around a candid interview
with the 81-year-old, testimonies from people
who know her and archive material, the film
tracks the singer's rise from a self-described
"girl from the cotton fields" to a global music
icon.
"It wasn't a good life," Turner says in the
opening scenes of the film, which is divided
into five chapters, starting with "Part 1 - Ike
and Tina".
Turner and former husband Ike Turner, who died
of a cocaine overdose in 2007, enjoyed huge
success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They
divorced in 1978 after a stormy marriage in
which she said she was beaten.
The "What's Love Got to Do with It" singer
launched her solo career in the 1980s.
"The first thing she said when we were sitting
down, she's like 'I don't want to do this',"
said "TINA" co-director Dan Lindsay, who was
approached by Turner's husband Erwin Bach to
make the documentary.
"And we're like 'OK, what does that mean?' ...
She just meant ... she's done with press and
stuff like that, and the end of the film talks
about how do you bow out slowly."
"TINA" recounts the tumultuous years with Ike
through Turner's own words and recordings of
past interviews she gave.
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 "To me ... the biggest
revelation is the fact that even at this chapter
in her life, she suffers from PTSD. And that was
so unexpected for us that it fundamentally
changed our approach to the entire film," said
"TINA" co-director T.J. Martin.
Turner, an eight-time Grammy winner known for
songs like "River Deep, Mountain High", "Private
Dancer" and "The Best", was born in Tennessee
but moved to Switzerland in 1995 to join her
German-born record producer husband Bach.
She retired from performing after a sold-out
farewell tour, which ended in 2009, and became a
Swiss national in 2013.
She came out of retirement to unveil "Tina - The
Tina Turner Musical" in 2017.
In the documentary, Turner says the musical and
new film mark her farewell from public life.
"TINA" is released on Saturday in the U.S. by
HBO and premieres in Britain on Sky
Documentaries, NOW and Altitude Film on Sunday.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Mike Collett-White)
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