Britney vs. Spears (2021) on Netflix

NR20211h 33mDocumentary Music

A conservatorship has governed Britney Spears' life for years. A journalist and a filmmaker look into the dispute over it, gathering exclusive interviews and confidential evidence.

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Two years of research and investigation went into the conservatorship dispute around Britney Spears, which a journalist and a filmmaker worked on together. They gathered exclusive interviews and confidential evidence. Spears' career across several years is part of the subject, along with the arrangement itself and the media's treatment of her. The plan at first was to look at the conservatorship and that treatment; after another documentary about Spears appeared, the structure changed. The filmmaker tried to reach Spears through her representatives without success and wrote her a letter about the film. Spears appears through archival footage.

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Director Erin Lee Carr spent two years researching and investigating Britney Spears' conservatorship dispute; after her attempts to reach Spears through her representatives went unanswered, Carr instead wrote her a letter about the film.