FREE ON YOUTUBE Nick Cave - 20.000 Days On Earth

Wednesday at our film art bar Fitzcarraldo 80s & New Wave Sound and with it the early Nick Cave. Now you can even rent it on DVD and Cave for a day! Assuming a conventional documentary about the world's most popular living pop musician, Nick Cave, would be unsatisfactory, the creators of 20,000 Days on Earth made their main character accompany him for a fictional day of his life. Since co-directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard had already produced music videos for Cave & The Bad Seeds, they knew that the artist should not be underestimated. In his music he joyfully celebrates and deconstructs his public figure: as a brutalo, a coward, an agnostic and even a wannabe god. 20,000 Days on Earth is not a biography, but Work-In-Progress. Forsyth and Pollard had enough tasks ready for Cave and cleverly get him to act. In the best scene of the movie Nick Cave records the vocals for his Higgs-Boson Blues (for me the most exciting song of Push the Sky Away, the last album of Bad Seeds). In real time we see Cave languish in extreme close-up. And he only plays this song for Forsyth and Pollard before an audience even hears it! Isn't that impressive?(...)