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David Bowie becomes Andy Warhol, in artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s portrait of an artist by an artist, Basquiat 1996, depicting the life and work of American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.

In America in the late 1970s and early 1980s, neo-expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat set the artworld on fire with his dynamic and rebellious painting style. Nurtured by Andy Warhol, Basquiat would go on to become one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century.

A keen admirer of Warhol and his work, David Bowie emulates the artist’s gestures with uncanny mimicry (whilst also wearing one of Warhol's actual wigs loaned to him from the Andy Warhol Museum), resulting in a fascinating character study, where celebrity plays celebrity, that unfolds in real time on screen.

Drug use, Medium level coarse language