David Bowie: The Final Act
RELEASE DATE: TBA
| ARTE | Release Date: TBA |
Summary:
Ten years on from the release of his final album, Bowie: The Final Act charts the extraordinary final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic and inventive artists.
Genre(s):
Biography, Music, Documentary
Runtime:
90 min
The Times
Jan 2, 2026
Jan 2, 2026
Visually, the film favours documentary orthodoxy over the formal risk that Bowie himself represented. For an artist who treated identity as performance and disappearance as strategy, the film’s restraint feels curiously conservative. But The Final Act is not attempting reinvention so much as consolidation.
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Jan 2, 2026
The Guardian
Jan 2, 2026
Ten years on, it’s moving to hear Visconti, his lifelong friend and collaborator, talking about recording in secret what they all knew would be his last project. It would be wrong to call it going out on a high, under the circumstances, but it’s heartening that Bowie could craft such a poignant, defiant, dignified exit.
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