Here’s a new trailer for 20,000 Days, the unique quasi-documentary starring Nick Cave from Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film is a sort of enhanced version of reality. Nick Cave recounts his thoughts and experiences to a fictional (we assume) therapist, as we see snippets of his creative process.
Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit.
The film uses real artifacts of Cave’s past, photos, footage, etc., while placing him in a fictionalized present. Instead of aiming to be raw and truthful, the purpose of this format is to “not break the mythology,” of Nick Cave’s life, Forsyth toldThe Guardian.
Nick Cave pretends to chauffeur Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone. Nick Cave watches Scarface with his twelve-year-old sons. He goes to a psychoanalyst, has lunch with Warren Ellis and visits the Nick Cave Archive at the "Melbourne Arts Centre" set. But not really. For their upcoming "drama-documentary" 20,000 Days on Earth, conceptual artists and music history re-enactors Iain…
Drafthouse Films just acquired North American rights to the Nick Cave “drama-documentary” 20,000 Days on Earth dir. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, featuring Kylie Minogue, Warren Ellis and staged scenarios for revealing soliloques. Here's the first official clip. See a dramatically lit Nick Cave type in a theatrical manner while the narrator voice -- who…
Ooh. This is better than the last new Nick Cave video -- the shadow-strolls-through-forest-moodily that Gaspar Noé's directed. Sorry, Noé. Heart you. From the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 15th album Push the Sky Away (yes, you can pre-order), featuring Ray Winstone, here is the "Jubilee Street" music video directed by John Hillcoat. Hillcoat…
