Nick Cave can show a movie on his forehead. Hes a pretty cool cat all gothicy and creepy and I really dug him with Birthday Party but now-well he’s a bit of a drag. I suppose that comes with age but if you’re a performer you really should keep the dream alive.
So being the type he is his documentary is scripted and filtered and buffed up rather than straight docu style. Cave was against the idea at first stating
“I couldn’t think of anything worse,” Cave said. “Because of all the other rock ‘n’ roll documentaries out there that are just such a yawn, that do more damage than they do good. You always walk away from these films about your heroes or people that you’re interested in feeling like you’d wish you’d never seen the film.”
So hey as long as it can be scripted—
“I think it’s wrong to think that the celebrity or the person who lives a lot of their life in the public eye is a normal person, even though there’s a lot of celebrities who go to great lengths to appear that they’re normal people,” Cave said during rehearsals last week in Nashville before his appearance at the Bonnaroo music festival. “There’s no way they can be normal people. Their lives are mutations, and so sometimes it’s easier for people who’ve been in the public eye or have done a million interviews to actually speak more truthfully in that environment than it is in their natural environment.”
He considers himself a celebrity…
But he was pleased with the outcome
“When I actually went and saw it in the cinema, I was really blown away by the idea that a couple of directors had an idea and they made the film and the result is just like the original idea they had, which is very difficult to do in the film world,” Cave said. “ … Basically they were allowed to realize their vision by the producers and financiers of the film. I was blown away by that.”
The odds of you seeing this film anywhere but Netflix in a few months is slim to none unless you have an art cinema in LA or something. Die hard fans will love it and the rest of us will go..’ wait remember Birthday Party….”
