Oscar-winning
actress Tilda Swinton has hit the small screen, playing the role of David
Bowie's suburban wife in the video for his latest single.
Swinton, whose best supporting actress Oscar in 2007
was for George Clooney thriller Michael Clayton, is seen shopping with Bowie
and watching TV.
She has starred in one other music video - Orbital's The Box - which
was up for best video at the 1997 Brits.
The video with Bowie was directed by Floria Sigismondi.
Sigismondi also worked with Bowie on his video for
Little Wonder in 1996 and Dead Man Walking in 1997.
She has directed videos for musicians including Muse,
Katy Perry, The White Stripes, The Cure, Bjork, Leonard Cohen and Marilyn
Manson.
Swinton recently appeared in Wes Anderson's Moonrise
Kingdom, which launched Cannes film festival last year, and she starred in
2011's critically acclaimed We Need to Talk About Kevin, as a mother coming to
terms with her son's part in a high school massacre.
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) is Bowie's second
offering from his forthcoming album The Next Day - his first new material in 10
years.
A statement on Bowie's website said: "This story
at once captures a twenty first century moment in its convergence of age,
gender and the normal/celebrity divide."
The video stars androgynous models Andrej Pejic and
Saskia De Brauw and features Norwegian model Iselin Steiro as a young Bowie.
It already has critics singing
its praises, with the Daily Telegraph's rock and pop critic Neil McCormick
saying it is "teasing us with ideas of Bowie both as an aging recluse and
an ageless androgynous rock star".
"It is the return of the master, showing every
other rock and roll star, old or young, how things should be done," he
added.
Sigismondi's first feature length film, The Runaways,
starred Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie.
See / hear David Bowie’s The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
here.
Source: BBC
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