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David Bowie: The Last Five Years

2017 · 90 min

A warm, wistful look at creative reinvention and mortality, carried by archival footage and affectionate recollections.

Overview
In the last five years of his life, David Bowie ended nearly a decade of silence to engage in an extraordinary burst of activity, producing two groundbreaking albums and a musical. David Bowie: The Last Five Years explores this unexpected end to a remarkable career. Made with remarkable access, Francis Whately’s documentary is a revelatory follow-up to his acclaimed 2013 documentary David Bowie: Five Years, which chronicled Bowie’s golden ‘70s and early-‘80s period.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • music
  • death
  • memory
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
music, documentary, tv movie
Directed by
Francis Whately
Written by
Francis Whately
Starring
David Bowie, Michael C. Hall, Toni Basil, Tony Visconti, Gail Ann Dorsey, Donny McCaslin, Geoff MacCormack, Maria Schneider
Cinematography
Richard Numeroff, Louis Caulfield
Runtime
90 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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