Peter Bradshaw

The Director of an acclaimed New Documentary dedicated to The Words and music of David Bowie credits The Singer with " teaching him how To Live " after he suffered a Heart Attack in his late forties.

Brett Morgen , The Director of Moonage Daydream - a 140-minute film without narration, but filled with Bowie's interviews, musings on art and his Performances - says his own life was " out of control" when he began work on The Film in January 2017, almost exactly a year after.

" One of The Greatest legacies anyone can have is to continue to inspire when we're no longer here, and David does exactly that, " Morgen tells The Bbc .

" David Bowie changed My Life . I first came to him as I became a teenager, and his impact was tremendous. Then, just as I started working on this film, I suffered a massive Heart Attack . I flatlined for three minutes and was in a coma.

" My Life was out of control, and I was entirely work obsessed. I put all my ego into my work and I'm The Father of three kids. When you have an experience like that, you think, what's been The Message of My Life ? Work hard and die in your 40s. . "

He adds: " I needed to learn how To Live again and that's when David Bowie really came back into My Life at the Age Of 47.

" He transitioned me from childhood, And Then he transitioned me from being a man-child to being a proper father. That to me was his greatest gift. I had no idea going into this how he would impact My Life . "

Morgen, who also made the 2015 film Cobain: Montage of Heck, about The Life and death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain , premiered the new film This Week at the Cannes Film Festival - and danced on the Red Carpet to Bowie's music.

Moonage Daydream , The First documentary authorised by David Bowie 's estate, features never-before-seen footage of Bowie, including concert footage from Earl's Court, London, in 1978, where excited fans can be seen running into The Arena , followed by Bowie performing Heroes On Stage .

" We were The First people to be able to access that material and that was a true revelation, " Morgen says, adding that he looked through almost five million Bowie " assets" over The Five years of making The Film .

" My personal favourite moment in The Process was finding material of The 1975 Soul tour [which] I didn't know was in existence, " he adds. " But I want The Film to be More Than the sum of its parts of footage. "

The Documentary also focuses on The Singer 's artistic interests in sculpture, theatre, film and painting, and his travels in the East Asia , as well living in Berlin in the then East Germany in the 19070s, saying he wanted to make himself " uncomfortable".

" He just wanted to make The Most out of Every Day , and recognised that feeling comfortable is a falsehood, " Morgen explains. " If it's easy, why do it? So once Bowie mastered something, he moved on. "

Bowie's marriage to Somali supermodel and actress Iman in the early 1990s was another pivotal point. The couple were married for nearly 25 years until his death.

" Something changed when he met Iman, " Morgen says. " That's why The Film doesn't Keep Going for Ever After a certain point. He was at a plateau, but he was still able to do some work, some of his most beautiful work, I think.

" In 1995, when he made Outsider, people thought he was getting hip to the younger kids in his forties, and he was dismissed by some.

" But he was doing the same thing he had always done, which was appropriating sounds and culture and making them his own. "

First reviews of The Film include entertainment website describing it as " a fitting encapsulation of the many 'he taught me it was OK to be weird' sentiments in The Wake of Bowie's death".

In a five-star review, 's Peter Bradshaw said it's a " shapeshifting, epiphany-slash-freakout leading to the revelation that, yes, we're lovers of David Bowie and that is that".

However, said " anyone encountering him for the First Time in Morgen's film might be forgiven for concluding that alongside The Musical genius, he could be a pretentious bore".

Morgen says that, during his career, " this is The First film where I haven't felt a need to read reviews or comments about it".

" Regardless of whether anyone likes The Film , I got so much from David, it was such a personal experience for me, " he explains. " I'm blessed that I could spend that time with his image and his voice. "

Source of news: bbc.com