While films like The World’s a Little Blurry help demystify the pop star, they can also act as a self-serving commercial to sell more albums and concert tickets. While this is no puff piece, it’s not an entirely unadorned portrait. Because even if you are privy to some confessions, the artist still controls what is filmed and the filmmaker still controls what is shown to us. This is no concert film either. In fact, the performances are, if anything, incidental pleasures. It’s what happens behind-the-scenes that makes for fascinating viewing. Backstage at Coachella, Eilish meets Katy Perry and another eager fan in her husband Orlando Bloom. Only, she doesn’t recognise him till informed later, confessing in embarrassment that she thought he was “just some dude Katy Perry met.” Her well-documented first encounter with Justin Bieber, also at Coachella, gets a longer, sweeter cut.
On one occasion,…