Another is her first meeting with Justin Bieber.
She talks about her longstanding obsession in
an interview, he gets in touch three days before
her album release about wanting to collaborate.
(She tells her manager that “he could ask me to
kill my dog and I would.”) Then at Coachella he
appears as she’s greeting a hoard of her fans.
She freezes and becomes a fan herself. Later
she’ll sob over a heartfelt message he sends her.
And there are some incredibly vulnerable
moments too, showing the performer
exhausted and annoyed. Eilish remains as
unique and enigmatic as she seems from a
distance, but also is presented very much like
a normal Los Angeles teenager, getting her
driver’s license, dreaming of a matte black
Dodge Challenger and texting with a largely
absent boyfriend.
Fans will eat up every morsel of this
documentary and wish for more. For
newcomers, however, it might benefit from
watching in installments, which is one of the
benefits of the film debuting on Apple TV+.
There’s even an intermission to help take the
guesswork out of where to hit pause.
This does not come across as a vanity project
that’s been intensely controlled by the star or
the machinery around her, either. It’s refreshing.
It’s also probably one of the last times we’ll all
be invited into her life in this way.
“Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry,” an
Apple TV+ and Neon released last weekend,
has not been rated by the Motion Picture
Association of America. Running time: 140
minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.