Taylor Swift's 'Miss Americana' receives standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival

Miss Americana, a Netflix documentary directed by Lana Wilson, was one most feverishly awaited films in this year's Sundance program, and premiere at Eccles Center in Park City on festival's opening day was a predictably frenzied scene.  film, which released on January 31 on Netflix, received a standing ovation for 30-year-old singer's performance whose struggles through fame and body shaming have been detailed in documentary.

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film plays like a coming-of- drama for a performer who despite finding mega-fame as a teenr took some time to truly find her voice. In film, she says she always strove to be 'a good girl' and needed approving 'pats on he' for any sense of gratification. Miss Americana captures an evolution in Taylor Swift as she moved past her fears and emerged as one of leing singers in industry. 

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Swift talked in film about coming to terms with body im issues that grew out of scanning countless ims that are shot at her, and comments posted on social media. Swift said she would sometimes go into “a hate spiral” and starve herself after seeing photos that she felt she looked overweight in.

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Miss Americana includes plenty of intimate scenes of Swift at home or at work. She drinks white wine with ice cubes and didn't try a burrito until a few years ago, we learn. But a continuous thre through documentary is of Swift, who last month turned 30, crafting music. In scenes by pia or in studio, Wilson captures Swift writing lyrics and honing melodies with a relentless passion.

“For so much of my life in public eye when I get s or upset or humiliated or angry or go through a really horrible time, I feel like people lean in with, like, this hunger. And you never did that to me,” said Swift to Wilson. "That was what me me feel OK about feeling sness, humiliation and anger around you."

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