Ricochet

Ricochet (1984)

Ricochet dresse un portrait des coulisses de la tournée Serious Moonlight de David Bowie en 1983. Filmé à Singapour, Bangkok et Hong Kong, ce film comprend des interprétations en direct de « Fame », « Look Back in Anger », « Heroes » et « Ricochet ». Ricochet avait déjà été publié en vidéo amateur en 1984 dans une version plus courte, séparément du clip de Serious Moonlight. Il a ensuite été réédité en bonus avec la réédition DVD de Serious Moonlight en 2006.

Date de sortie
1984-03-27
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (2)
Durée
1 h 18 min
Genres
Documentaire, Musique
Réalisateur
Gerry Troyna

Distribution

Anecdotes

Ricochet is a 1984 documentary film about the musician David Bowie. Made with Bowie’s full consent and participation, it was the second of such documentary productions following Cracked Actor from 1975. However, whereas Cracked Actor was made for television by the BBC's Omnibus strand, Ricochet was made for commercial release to the home video market.

Background

Bowie released Let's Dance, his fifteenth studio album, on 14 April 1983. Within weeks both the album and a single of the same name released a month prior were in the top echelons of the UK and US charts. Not only did the album go on to be the most successful of his career so far up to that point, but it also marked a radical change in direction for Bowie.

The Serious Moonlight Tour eventually ran from 18 May – 8 December 1983, beginning at the Vorst Forest Nationaal, Brussels, and concluding in the Hong Kong Coliseum. The original end of tour was planned to be Auckland, New Zealand on 26 November.

Accordingly, four dates were secured at three locations: The National Stadium, Singapore, on 3 December; the Thai Army Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand on 5 December; and two final shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum, Kowloon, Hong Kong on 7 and 8 December. To commemorate this finale of the tour, Bowie asked filmmaker Gerry Troyna to document the trip.

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