'It’s probably impossible to make the definitive documentary about a figure like David Bowie,' writes Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek). 'The beauty of Brett Morgen’s velvet-and-facepaint collage 'Moonage Daydream' is that it doesn’t try to be definitive'
, who was so much larger and grander than life. The beauty of Brett Morgen’s velvet-and-facepaint collageis that it doesn’t try to be definitive. Instead, it’s a glide through Bowie’s career, hardly complete yet somehow capturing both the spirit and the genius of this most enigmatic and alluring artist.
Morgen seems to recognize that, from the moment Bowie splashed onto the scene in the early 1970s—his first two albums, released in 1967 and 1969, were not hits—to the moment he died in 2016, there were almost too many David Bowies to count. Morgen begins with the artist’s, circa the early ’70s: he was a slender reed of a man with a choppy strawberry-red haircut, eyes rimmed with stark eyeliner.
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