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Release year: 2016

Storyline

Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.

Top credits

Directors

Andrew Dominik

Cast

Nick Cave — Self
Warren Ellis — Self
Jim Sclavunos — Self
Susie Bick — Self

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Did you know

• Nick Cave and Andrew Dominik had an agreement in which Dominick could shoot anything he wanted and ask any question, and Cave would be able to cut whatever he didn't like. Despite the agreement, Cave was angry at the final cut and worried it was exploitative; the film was ultimately released without cuts. After seeing the film again with an audience, Cave embraced it as "a gift" to himself, his wife Susie and his deceased son Arthur.

• Nick Cave commissioned and financed this documentary to be made as a way of avoiding what he knew would be a deluge of media questioning on his son Arthur's death in the middle of recording the album Skeleton Tree. He never expected to see a profit from it.

• Shot in 10 days, with the musical sequences elaborately staged and the interviews completely improvised.