24 hours in the life of Australian artist Nick Cave – singer, composer, poet, writer, even actor and screenwriter – who opens the doors of his iconoclastic spirit onto both the enchanted and the disenchanted.

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One thing is for sure: 20,000 Days on Earth is not just a simple documentary about Nick Cave. Born out of a meeting between the musician and the directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth, who had at first been invited merely to record the album Put the Sky Away in 2013, the film turned into an unclassifiable experience and a real piece of film that is visually and narratively astonishing. Definitely a movie for fans of Nick Cave, but also a look at a man who is able to direct his pseudo philosophical digressions onto life and creation, articulated around an appointment with his psychoanalyst as well as an immersion into his old memories on film. A narcissistic, alternative voyage whose difficult moments offer a ridiculous poetry, with others parts that are much more inspiring, such as the flamboyant ending. Those who aren’t put off by Cave’s strange charm will find 20,000 Days on Earth a worthy experience.