David Bowie has released the title track from his current album The Next Day as a single.

The video was directed by Floria Sigismundi – the photographer and filmmaker who directed Bowie’s last video, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”. She also directed The Runaways and the video for Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors”.

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The video for “The Next Day“, which is set in a pub, stars Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard alongside Bowie.

Bowie plays a Christ-like figure, Oldman portrays a priest and Cotillard plays a saint-like character while a Cardinal hands out cash and a nun prays.

Bowie and Oldman previously joined forces in 1995, when they recorded a duet of Bowie’s “You’ve Been Around” for guitarist Reeves Gabrels’ album The Sacred Squall Of Now. They worked together again in 1996 on the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat with Bowie portraying Andy Warhol and Oldman in the role of a fellow painter loosely based on Julian Schnabel.

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All three have previously starred in Christopher Nolan films. Bowie starred in The Prestige, while Oldman is an alumni of all three Batman films, the last of which co-starred Cotillard.

You can read our guide to Bowie on film here.