TINA — a new, authorised documentary from the Oscar-winning duo Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin (Undefeated) — opens with a piercing close-up of Tina Turner: her brown eyes staring down the barrel of the camera; pursed lips, coated in brick-red lipstick; a wind machine gently blowing through her iconic 80s-MTV hair.
“When you think of Tina Turner, you think of strength, resilience,” says Martin.
“I think that image embodies the symbol.”
The close-up shot is an out-take from the video for What’s Love Got to Do With It — the mega-hit from the album Private Dancer, which saw Turner resurrected in her forties as a solo act who could fill stadiums worldwide.
She’d been a pioneering R&B and rock ‘n’ roll artist across the 60s and 70s, working with her husband Ike Turner, whose physical and emotional abuse of Turner is well known. When she divorced him in 1978, he
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