A new documentary about '90s indie pop icon Alanis Morissette premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday night, but the singer wasn't in her native Canada to celebrate the occasion. One one hand, she skipped the screening because she's on tour with Garbage and Cat Power, performing in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday. But the other reason Morissette didn't show up is because she's upset with how Jagged portrays her, calling the film "reductive" and "salacious."
The musician sat for extensive interviews with director Alison Klayman, even taking her on a pilgrimage to a storage locker stuffed with demos on cassette tape, home videos on VHS, and a duffle bag Morissette says is filled with love letters from boyfriends past. According to early reviews of the documentary, the singer comes off as funny, insightful and "almost ridiculously personable" — in contrast to the "angry young woman" she was labeled as when her scathing breakout hit "You Oughta Know" hit the airwaves.
