I simply can’t wait to see this movie! 20,000 days on earth is described as an innovative drama-documentary featuring Nick Cave and directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The very short trailer doesn’t show us much, just Nick Cave sitting at his old-fashioned typewriter, talking about the creative process behind his fascinating world of mythologized characters, a world ‘where God actually exists’,… Ha! Cave doesn’t believe in God but he curiously makes him come alive in his songs.
It’s quite difficult to talk about a movie without seeing it, but just watching this mysterious trailer, with Warren Ellis’ soundtrack and Nick Cave’s fabulous presence, makes me salivate in anticipation. So what can we expect? ‘20,000 Days’ is an intimate look, which ‘takes the form of an imagined day in the life of Cave, as he drives his luxury car to his therapist, has lunch with bandmate Warren Ellis, heads to an archive loaded with bric-à-brac from his past’…’and snacks on pizza while watching Scarface with his twin sons’…it also throws in between scenes showing Cave working on his last album ‘Push the Sky Away’, live concert footages and chats with Ray Winstone and Kylie Minogue. I wonder whether this will include the short movie shown before shows during Nick and the Bad Seeds’ last tour.