Whitney: Can I Be Me Succeeds in Not Exploiting but Celebrating Whitney Houston’s Life

As the Tribeca Film Festival rolls through New York City this week and next, perhaps no film has been more anticipated or controversial than Whitney: Can I Be Me , an inside look at troubled pop icon Whitney Houston. At the world premiere of the film Wednesday evening, directors Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal (no relation to Rachel, before you wonder), who documented Houston during a world tour, announced before the film was shown at 5:45 p.m. that they had received clearance to air it just three hours before the scheduled screening. Broomfield declined to give details on the conflict, but adamantly thanked his lawyers for making the film possible that evening.

Given the announcement of behind-the-scenes drama, I watched expecting startling revelations the general audience wouldn’t know about the late pop singer, who died in 2012. Throughout Houston’s career, she was plagued with rumors about…

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