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David Bowie: Finding Fame

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Stuart Jeffries Guardian 03/07/2019
4/5
Bowie was, for once, not master manipulator of sound and vision, not virtuoso of a thousand disguises, but something sweeter: unguarded boy with a broken heart. Go to Full Review Suzi Feay Financial Times 02/13/2019
5/5
Finding Fame is the third film in Francis Whately's Bowie trilogy, after David Bowie: Five Years and David Bowie: The Last Five Years and is by far the most intriguing. Go to Full Review Carol Midgley The Times (UK) 02/11/2019
Any reality-show wannabe who expects instant fame and fortune after spending ten minutes on Towie should be forced to watch Francis Whately's exceptional David Bowie: Finding Fame. Go to Full Review Benjamin H. Smith Decider 08/09/2019
David Bowie: Finding Fame covers much of the same ground as Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story and Bowie: The Man Who Changed The World, it's just much better done and more more enjoyable to watch. Go to Full Review Victoria Segal Sunday Times (UK) 02/11/2019
Whately's documentary did excellent work in rolling up all these untidy loose ends, covering both Bowie's childhood and the astonishing 11 years it took for him to achieve unbreakable fame with Ziggy Stardust. Go to Full Review Howard Male The Arts Desk 02/11/2019
5/5
It's a hypnotic, multilayered work that's never self-indulgent and always completely engaging. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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02/18/2019 The weakest effort in Whately's trilogy of Bowie documentaries by some distance. Perhaps because there is little that's new to present to the viewer or perhaps because by it's nature of focusing on Bowie's failures when trying to get started it's the subject matter of the least interest. At the end of the day I love Bowie and I was bored at times, and felt it was a good half an hour too long. See more Read all reviews
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Francis Whately

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David Bowie

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Francis Whately