Stardust review: A flimsy, unrecognisable portrait of David Bowie in his early years

Read full article Clarisse Loughrey13 January 2021, 10:09 am·4-min read (Vertigo Releasing) Dir: Gabriel Range. Starring: Johnny Flynn, Jena Malone, Marc Maron. 15, 109 mins Johnny Flynn doesn’t deserve to get a bad rap for his performance as David Bowie in Stardust, Gabriel Range’s flimsy biopic of the star. The actor-musician, so magnetic in last year’s EMMA., is convincing as a tortured glam rocker – just not the one who ever sang about Major Tom’s interplanetary adventures. It’s someone else in all the floppy hats and heeled shoes, in the scarlet hair and sequins. This isn’t the artist of such brilliant, inscrutable mystique, but a vision of Bowie as a sullen child in a pre-Ziggy...