‘Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me’ AFI Fest Review: A Sometimes Dark, Raw And Honest Look At A Star Living On The Edge

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The American Film Institute’s AFI Fest got underway in earnest Wednesday at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with the world premiere of the Apple TV+ documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, where the star walked the red carpet and participated in a post-screening Q&A (which AFI asked me to moderate) joined by the film’s director and co-writer Alex Keshishian.

In the nearly four decades this fest has taken place I can’t really recall the last time its opening-night gala started out with a docu, much less one focused on a music star/actress.

But then this movie is not your average portrait of a pop icon as it focuses less on the music, and far more on the mental health crisis of its subject, her other medical problems such as battling lupus and a kidney transplant, plus the “psychotic break” that forced her to cancel the rest of her 2016 “Revival” tour and check into a psychiatric hospital.

This kind of cinematic effort can be used by stars to sell books, tours, albums, but that is clearly not what interests the filmmaker or Gomez.