Janis: Little Girl Blue

...en sevärd sådan om en av rockhistoriens häftigaste och mest inflytelserika kvinnliga artister.

...some of the most fiery rock ’n’ roll performances ever captured on film.

...the true draw here is really just Janis: Sweet and wild and vividly alive, she takes a little piece of your heart when she goes.

...sincere, if frustratingly conventional, profile of a hellraising pioneer who adored what she did but so loathed herself that she sought refuge in drink and drugs to numb the pain.

What this movie introduces us to, indirectly, is the possibility that self-destruction is a genre in art and in life, requiring two addictions: to applause (causing agonising cold-turkey after the show) as well as to drugs.