20,000 Days on Earth 2014
Directed by Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth
- Documentary, Drama, Music
- 97 min
- NR
A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Aug 20226/10
I wouldn’t hesitate to call Nick Cave a genius, especially not after watching 20,000 Days on Earth – and yet, the beauty of this biofictional film, co-written by Cave with directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, is its humility. Most movies about musicians, particularly rockstars, suffer from what we might call The Amadeus Syndrome; in contrast, 20,000 Days is a refreshing reminder that you must let inspiration find you working – and by ‘you’ I mean anyone; if Cave himself is a genius, it's not because all his ideas are right, but because he has the right idea about all ideas: “We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame, great things can be constructed around it that are massive and powerful and world-changing... all held up by the tiniest of ideas”. This certainly is a film about the thought as well as the deed. We see Cave and the Bad Seeds working in
Read the whole review on TMDB - furious_izon TMDB · Apr 20188/10
Simultaneously one of the most pretentious and brilliant things I have ever seen. If you love Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, you will love this. If you find his music dark and too much hard work, stay away. 8/10
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Cast
- Nick CaveSelf
- Warren EllisSelf
- Blixa BargeldSelf
- Susie BickSelf
- Arthur CaveSelf
- Earl CaveSelf
- Kirk LakeArchivist
- Darian LeaderSelf
- Kylie MinogueSelf
- Ray WinstoneSelf
Crew
- Jane PollardDirector
- Iain ForsythDirector
- Nick CaveWriter
- Iain ForsythWriter
- Jane PollardWriter
- Erik WilsonDirector of Photography
- Nick CaveOriginal Music Composer
- Warren EllisOriginal Music Composer
- Jonathan AmosEditor
- Dan BowenProducer
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