20,000 Days on Earth

"Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard combine documentary and drama, music and musings on life, in a portrait of Australian musician Nick Cave as he spends his 20,000th day on Earth. For some, it’ll be a dreamlike, day-in-the-life treatment that teeters on pretentious; an arty conceit that confounds and confuses more than it engages or enlightens. For others, it offers a magical montage of music and imagery, fractured insights and diverting discussions."

"An aptly intense and innovative study of the pioneering rock poet. Playfully disguises itself as fiction while more than fulfilling the requirements of a biographical documentary."

"It’s a graphic illustration of the rock star as god and it made me feel queasy."

"[Cave] invites us to get acquainted with a self-mythologising heightened version of who he is, a character in his own fully inhabited fiction... shows an uncommon coherence of vision between the British visual artists and their subject."

"It’s a documentary, transformed into something greater. A memory, rewritten for us to explore."