BOWIE: THE FINAL ACT
UK, 2025, 90 mins,
Director: Jonathan Stiasny
Cast: David Bowie

 

Ten years on, there is enough distance to speak openly about what was really happening at the time. 
The final act of David Bowie’s life has remained one of its most closely guarded mysteries.
An artist who spent a lifetime turning his own identity into a work of art, Bowie made even his farewell part of Blackstar — another act of creative transformation, unsettling and compelling.
To understand what he achieved at the end of his career, the film looks back across the whole of his creative life.
It is rather like going through an old family album with friends: you know what comes next, you know how the story ends, but you keep looking.
With Bowie’s friends and fellow musicians as our guides, we return to the triumph of Let’s Dance, Glastonbury, Hammersmith Odeon, the controversial Berlin years, Ziggy Stardust, the films, the tours and the performances.
And, of course, Blackstar — Bowie looking back himself, drawing on the best of each period of his life and bringing it together in an extraordinary requiem of his own.
Poignant yet understated, made with tenderness and a rare respect for both his art and his privacy.
With Love: Bowie. The Final act.

 

Language: English