“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”: Whitney Houston, sound but no emotion

A year ago, the biopic Respect retraced with panache the edifying destiny of Aretha Franklin (1942-2018). Liesl Tommy notably offered moments of great intensity by staging the recordings of the masterpiece I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You at the mythical studio of Muscle Shoals, in Alabama, and that ofAmazing Gracepure gospel album which will see the singer reconnect with her roots in a church in Los Angeles. I Wanna Dance With Somebodywhich tells today the life of Whitney Houston (1963-2012), is otherwise less successful.