“ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS” 1986 | M/14 | 1h48’ [UK] | DAVID BOWIE Cinema Scrngs
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## 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 — a radically different film. Here Bowie appears as an iconic presence within a vibrant musical set in London’s Soho in 1958, at the moment when youth culture, music and pop aesthetics began reshaping the British urban imagination. Between jazz, photography, advertising and youthful rebellion, the film captures the instant when a new visual and cultural sensibility begins to emerge.
Between war and youth, between silence and spectacle, these two works reveal something essential about Bowie: his ability to exist in cinema as a liminal figure — someone who never fully belongs to the world he inhabits, yet precisely for that reason illuminates it in unexpected ways.
(Curatorship by Alexandre Braga)
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
Come and have a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink in the cinema room with us!