Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me is a 2022 American documentary film that follows singer and actress Selena Gomez during a six year period of her career. The film documents her struggles with fame and her physical and mental well-being in the wake of her diagnosis with lupus and bipolar disorder.Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me 2022 Full Movie Download
[1] It was directed by Alek Keshishian, produced by Lighthouse Media & Management and Interscope Films, and released to Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022.[2]The documentary follows Gomez on a six-year journey starting from around 2015, after Keshishian directed Gomez’s “Hands to Myself” music video.[3] Keshishian said: “I had no interest in making a traditional pop doc. I wanted to show something more authentic and Selena did, too. She has a raw vulnerability that captured me … I had no idea then that it would become a six-year labor of love.”[4]Gomez announced the release of her documentary with a short clip posted to her Instagram.[5] The film premiered at the AFI Fest on November 2, 2022, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.[4] The trailer for the documentary was released on October 10, which is World Mental Health Day.[6] The trailer included the song “My Mind & Me”, released on November 3, 2022; it was performed by Gomez and written by Gomez, Amy Allen, Jon Bellion, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson and Michael Pollack.[7]Upon release, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, received a highly positive response from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 95% approval rating based on 22 reviews.[8] On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.[9]Chris Azzopardi of The New York Times praised the documentary as an “honest portrait study of stardom and mental illness.” He writes the film “offers a hopeful catharsis: How, when we reveal our hardest truths, we can heal together.”[10] Writing for IndieWire, David Ehrlich notes the “raw and messy” documentary is “not a movie about healing so much as a movie about learning to hurt in the healthiest way possible. And if its diaristic, inside-out approach has the strange effect of keeping us at a distance, it also invites its most vulnerable young viewers to appreciate that even their favorite superstar is still fighting to be closer to herself.