"Moonage Daydream" is not just a documentary on David Bowie.
This film allows a dive in apnea in the universe of the artist.
Brett Morgen delivers an immersive and unforgettable cinematic experience.
Moonage Daydream
by Brett Morgen, enthusiastically received at Cannes and Deauville, is much more than a documentary on David Bowie!
It is to a real sensory experience that the director invites to plunge into the universe of the artist.
The public really has the impression of visiting Bowie's brain, a 2h20 psychedelic trip from which he emerges on a small cloud.
Brett Morgen, already director of a documentary on the Rolling Stones and Kurt Cobain, sifted through 5 million archives (films, audio recordings, drawings) for four years to achieve this result as dazzling as was the star.
“There were times when I was so blown away by what I was discovering that I felt like opening the door and inviting people into my editing room to share the footage with me,” recalls he.
Nothing to do with a biopic
Brett Morgen has made the draconian choice not to provide expert comments or testimonials from David Bowie's relatives.
“My film is not a biopic, he insists.
It's a collage that I orchestrated.
» From this patchwork of images and sounds emerges the complexity of the talents of David Bowie who knew how to reinvent himself for more than half a century.
“I am a collector who collects personalities and ideas,” the artist declared in a 1973 interview. This is what emerges from
Moonage Daydream
which makes one feel the incredible versatility of a brilliant man whose various artistic approaches are valued more than his private life.
Rare documents (his theatrical performance in
Elephant Man
or his work as a painter) are just as striking as his music and his physical metamorphoses.
Moonage Daydream
highlights how, beyond the icon, David Bowie was a fine, funny, modest and likeable man.
If there are many rock stars that we would not like to have in our living room, the ironic but benevolent delicacy of David Bowie makes you want to know him personally.
Moonage Daydream
puts stars in the eyes and ears.
This experience, as powerful as it is immersive, is really designed to be experienced in a cinema, as it is innovative in its approach and captivating in its 20.
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