The documentary uses a montage-style editing format to convey a biography of Bowie, utilizing film clips and interviews from throughout his career. Moonage Daydream' Review: Brett Morgen's Kaleidoscopic Head-Trip Meditation on Who David Bowie Was". Moonage Daydream had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, [4] [7] where it received positive reviews. The documentary explores nearly every facet of Cobain's life, from his birth in 1967 to his rise to fame as the frontman of Nirvana.

He concluded that, "As musical documentaries go, it's more ambitious than anything you're likely to witness for quite some time.He is depicted as having entered the height of his career and formed a new life style with his new wife Iman Abdulmajid. On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 83 out of 100 based on 34 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Morgen has [assembled] a mesmerizing collage of sound and vision that will entrance and enrich any Bowie fan and, presumably, make new fans of anyone lucky enough to have this be their first real encounter with his world. Morgen was granted unprecedented access to five million items belonging to Bowie, including paintings, drawings, recordings, photographs, films, and journals.Highlights include a previously unreleased live medley of 'The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie’ recorded live at the final Ziggy Stardust concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973, featuring Jeff Beck on guitar.

Some of his movie performances were better than others, but again the point was that he had included movie-stardom as an ingredient in what he was already doing. He really captures Bowie as not the alien spaceman that once defined his image but almost a filter for all other pop culture. Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Brett Morgen’s (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) feature length experiential cinematic odyssey explores David Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual journey. Much has made of how Bowie would reinvent himself in different eras, but Morgen’s documentary connects these different periods of his life in a way that's organic—they were all about an artist trying to create something meaningful to him every single day. The film is divided into nearly two dozen "chapters" in the DVD release with the first hour covering Bowie starting in London up to his departure to West Berlin.Siddhant Adlakha of IndieWire gave the film a "B+", characterizing it thus: "More sensory experience than straightforward recounting, [ Moonage Daydream] is about feeling your way through a chaotic world with Ziggy Stardust as your anchor. Morgen's documentary utilizes that same approach, taking fragments from Bowie's life and using that to create the ultimate cinematic experience. And somehow that act of getting lost—both in the music and the film about him—feels more rewarding than knowing where we’re going. Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards nominations: 'Everything Everywhere All At One,' 'The Banshees of Inisherin' lead". The trailer set the tone for the documentary, starting out with a mysterious figure walking down a hallway with an ominous voiceover describing what could only be Mr.