A biopic about the young David Bowie (but without any Bowie songs) captures him on a 1971 road trip across America, when he was still putting together the insinuating image puzzle that would become Ziggy Stardust.
By Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Stardust,” a movie that dramatizes David Bowie’s road trip across America in 1971, David (Johnny Flynn), several years into his career but still, in terms of image, a bit of a leftover hippie rocker, finds himself performing at a convention of vacuum-cleaner salesmen.
It seems his manager back in England had failed to secure him a U.S. work visa. So even though he’s supposed to be touring the States, he can’t give concerts, can’t perform on television or radio.
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