“ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS” 1986 | M/14 | 1h48’ [UK] | DAVID BOWIE Cinema Scrngs

Ciclo DAVID BOWIE: METAMORFOSE E VERTIGEM

[DAVID BOWIE: METHAMORFOSIS AND VERTIGO Cinema Screenings]

“ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS” 1986 | M/14 | 1h48’ [UK]
De Julien Temple

Sábado Dia 11/04 às 19h30 [Saturday 04/11 at 7:30pm]

Na Londres vibrante do final dos anos 1950, um jovem fotógrafo e os seus amigos atravessam um mundo de música, moda e mudanças sociais. Entre romance, ambição e tensões raciais, o filme retrata o nascimento da cultura juvenil moderna.

In the vibrant London of the late 1950s, a young photographer and his friends navigate a world of music, fashion, and social change. Amid romance, ambition, and racial tensions, the film captures the birth of modern youth culture.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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There are artists whose presence in cinema goes far beyond acting. They become forces of displacement. Every gesture, every glance, every silence carries an energy capable of altering the balance of the image itself. David Bowie was one of those rare figures: an artist of perpetual metamorphosis, able to move through music, theatre, performance and cinema as if inhabiting several identities at once.

More than an occasional actor, Bowie brought to the screen a distinctive sense of vertigo. His characters often seem to exist on a threshold — between cultures, between eras, between the human and the enigmatic. In that encounter, cinema becomes a space of productive instability: a place where the performer’s face never fully settles into a single identity.
This cycle revisits two very different films, both animated by that same energy of displacement.

Three years later from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) comes Absolute Beginners (1986), directed by Julien Temple —