An experimental documentary by David Bowie, with unseen footage and narration of the late star himself, was released at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday, before its screening in Cannes next month.
Moonage Daydreamto be released in theaters next September, is the first film officially approved by David Bowie’s heirs, giving director Brett Morgen access to thousands of hours of archival footage.
You can’t identify Bowie. We will experience itsaid the filmmaker at the festival in Las Vegas.
We built Moonage Daydream as a unique cinematic experience to live in cinemas, to offer to the public what they cannot get from a book or an articlehe explained.
Not a biopic or traditional documentary, the film blends David Bowie’s songs, excerpts from his concerts, photos taken by fans and a series of abstract and surreal images to create a acoustic and visual specssummary by producer Bill Gerber (A star is Born).
Brett Morgen spent two years inspecting the drawers of David Bowie’s archives.
Visitors to the CinemaCon festival, which opened Monday in Las Vegas, saw lengthy excerpts from the film in which Bowie starred in his hits in particular. Hello Spaceboy at heroes.
I think we took responsibility for creating the 21st century in 1971do we hear Bowie’s explanation in the commentary.
We want to blow up everything that comes from the past. We questioned all established values and all tabooscontinued the actor, to whom everything is nonsense, and when it is nonsense it is wonderful.
Footage from Cronenberg’s upcoming shock movie
The Bowie film will be distributed in the United States by Neon, which also took advantage of CinemaCon to show excerpts from The crimes of the future by Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, one of the pioneers of horror films playing on the human body and its changes.
A shock trailer featuring Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux has been released, including photos of a woman splitting the body in half with her nails and a man with an extra ear grafted to the skull.
This film was signed by the director of Fallen and of Fly imagines a world where people are forced to speed up their evolution through organ transplants and other bodily changes in order to survive environmental turmoil.
The film, which will also be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, is a difficult film, an intense film perhaps, an unusual filmDavid Cronenberg told AFP.
The Cannes Film Festival is the perfect venue for thatHe added.
The crimes of the future ay really a reflection on what the world becomes, where the environment is headed, how it affects the bodycontinued the filmmaker.
It’s not a film about climate change but it’s about the current situation, and it’s interesting because I wrote the screenplay twenty years ago.he pointed out.
Source: Radio-Canada
