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David Bowie: The Last Five Years

  • 2017
  • TV-14
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
2.9K
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A documentary about David Bowie's final two albums "The Next Day" (2013) and "Blackstar" (2016) and Broadway musical "Lazarus".A documentary about David Bowie's final two albums "The Next Day" (2013) and "Blackstar" (2016) and Broadway musical "Lazarus".A documentary about David Bowie's final two albums "The Next Day" (2013) and "Blackstar" (2016) and Broadway musical "Lazarus".

  • Director
    • Francis Whately
  • Stars
    • David Bowie
    • Earl Slick
    • Gail Ann Dorsey
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    2.9K
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    • Director
      • Francis Whately
    • Stars
      • David Bowie
      • Earl Slick
      • Gail Ann Dorsey
    • 14User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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      • 3 nominations total

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    David Bowie
    David Bowie
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Earl Slick
    Earl Slick
    • Self
    Gail Ann Dorsey
    • Self
    Gerry Leonard
    • Self
    Catherine Russel
    • Self
    Sterling Campbell
    • Self
    Tony Visconti
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    Zachary Alford
    • Self
    David Torn
    • Self
    Geoff MacCormack
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    Mike Garson
    Mike Garson
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    Ava Cherry
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    Carlos Alomar
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    Reeves Gabrels
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    Floria Sigismondi
    Floria Sigismondi
    • Self
    Tony Oursler
    • Self
    Indrani
    Indrani
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    • (as Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri)
    Jonathan Barnbrook
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      • Francis Whately
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    10mgdraw

    Needs more Bowie in it, but you can't leave everything behind

    Conceptually, it works as intended: Bowie, from the perspective of those who worked with him and loved him. And there is more joy than sadness here. No fluff, no glorification, just a true to life account of a creative genius' last 5 years, true to himself until the very end. You will never get a full picture from Bowie. It's up to you to figure out the puzzle, and it's beautiful.
    7begob

    Mouse fart

    Last five years of the great star's life, but really a review of his career with studio versions of his songs played over obscure live footage.

    Most interesting thing I took from it is the Major Tom element. At one point Bowie says it was his internal dialogue made manifest, then there's an image of a skeleton orbiting in space, then a skeleton discovered inside a spacesuit, then an adaptation of Heroes for Lazarus, then screw heads for eyes over a bandage in a death bed. You had to be there.

    Overall: engaging, gets more interesting in the end.
    1mdmalice

    weak and bad documentary

    first we don't have to do a documentary about bowie in his last five years his 70,s and 80,s years were excited they should do a documentary about that should be cool how he started his career the wild of drugs,alcohol of 70's the england movement of 60,s and 70,s could be interesting for me but this film is boring sorry sorry telling the truth.
    10lynnhylton

    David Bowie: The Last Five Years

    It doesn't disappoint. The documentary does give new insight into David Jones, the person. A small, and possibly final piece to the unfinished puzzle of an extraordinarily talented, charismatic, highly influential and complex artist. It's not a celebration of his life or the story of his career. They've been done elsewhere. It leaves the viewer sadly and keenly aware that s/he will never have had enough of David Bowie.
    10dmjost-483-807165

    Brilliant

    This captures a great artist writing the final verses of his song.

    He shows us who is was is who he is.

    Proof of sick wisdom.

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      David Bowie never talks to camera, just comments some events as narrator.
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      [last lines]

      Interviewer: And legacy. What? How would you like your legacy written?

      David Bowie, Himself: I'd love people to believe I really had great haircuts.

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      • January 7, 2017 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
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    • Also known as
      • David Bowie: De fem sista åren
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