20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

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How old is a man who has lived 20,000 days? The debut feature film directed by visual artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard combines drama and reality in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave, one of the most enigmatic figures who has walked this earth.

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Directed By: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard

Written By: Nick Cave, Iain Forsyth

Starring: Ray Winstone, Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Blixa Bargeld, Susie Bick, Arthur Cave

Genres: Drama, Documentary, Music

Country: UK

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20,000 Days on Earth belongs to 10 collections

1. Female Directors (collaborative: moderated by djross - 90 stars)

2. 24 hour (or less) timeframe (collaborative: moderated by djross - 24 stars)

3. Directorial debut (collaborative: moderated by djross - 16 stars)

4. Musician / Composer (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)

5. Directed collaboratively (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)

6. 2014 US Theatrical (collaborative: moderated by DrBroel)

7. Sundance 2014 - World Cinema Documentary Competition (public: chemical404)

8. AA: Documentaries (public: KasperL)

9. To See (public: Contreras)

10. cineasterna.com (public: seeayesix)

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Date	User	Rating
Jul 30, 2017	Guillaume	80 _84th
Fantastic watch. Visually compelling, both disarming and idolizing the great man with his whacky hard and his ethereal songs, the wordsmith, the rebel, the ordinary man. Saw this shortly after watching One More Time With Feeling, a completely different experience.
Mar 10, 2016	cinegeek.de	80 _55th
In der Annahme, eine konventionelle Doku über den wohl beliebtesten lebenden Popmusiker der Welt, Nick Cave, wäre unbefriedigend, brachten die Macher von 20,000 Days on Earth ihre Hauptperson dazu, ihn einen fiktionalen Tag seines Lebens lang zu begleiten... mehr auf cinegeek.de
Dec 27, 2015	AAAutin	59 _68th
"Can't remember anything at all/But I'm driving my car [...]"
Dec 02, 2015	Barraoc	70 _64th
Insights into creativity and The Artist from a genuine crooked tree, Nick Cave. #15000DoE
Aug 11, 2015	tarwebrood	63 _34th
2015-07-04 was expecting less documentary, more plot
May 02, 2015	Ag0stoMesmer	5 _98th
Workaholic musician/wordsmith in a scripted reality/poetry/performance daydream, goth ambrosia.
Apr 10, 2015	meltemcilik	90 _99th
it's just perfect.
Feb 22, 2015	christiaanb	73 _36th
I love Nick Cave, but didn't like this movie, was too distracted by the pompousness of the monologues.
Jan 01, 2015	damil	65 _54th
This is a pretty cool and different kind of documentary. The whole thing is very pretentious, much like Cave himself. That's not to say it's not good, or that Cave isn't - in fact, I think he's a genius. But yeah, pretentious. That's just the way he is, though. There's some incredible performances captured in the film, for sure. I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone who's not already a fan of Cave, or familiar with him, at the very least. It's a decent watch.
Dec 30, 2014	bof	83 _90th
Less a documentary than an essay. "At the end of the 20th century, I ceased to be a human being." Nick Cave is one of few rock musicians both intelligent and self-obsessed enough to actually be interesting, talking about the point of art for 90 minutes. "The song is heroic, because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: One day, I will tell you how to slay the dragon."
Nov 30, 2014	VinegarBob	80 _79th
Fascinating portrait of a fascinating person, told in an imaginative way.
Nov 28, 2014	Alan_Laidlaw	78 _62nd
It's arguable how much this can be called a documentary, however, to dwell on this point would be to overlook what is important. Cave's pomp and ego is proudly mounted on display, as we are gifted an insight into the fascinating creative mind. Cloaked in self-mythologisation, with half a foot in reality and half in some world of apeish iconism, Cave proves a most intriguing and inspiring subject
Nov 22, 2014	Daina D	80 _59th
Probably - if not for Nick Cave and his beautiful writing, and his wisdom, and the dark gloomy poetry - it would be just another good documentary. But well it is NC's beautiful writing, wisdom and gloomy poetry, thus it becomes something more than a mere egocentric documentary voyage. Loved it.
Nov 21, 2014	Jimmis	80 _69th
A look into the mind of an artist. Even though the story was fabricated, it still feels very real. A lot to learn about music and life in a relatively short film.
Oct 22, 2014	Henrik	90 _96th
This is an innovative turn on the portrait/talking heads documentary form, especially the dream-subconcious-like car interviews done by Cave himself. Made me wanna love life and be creative... or just do something. And by the way, in case you'd forgotten, Nick Cave is the coolest man on earth!
Oct 22, 2014	donquixotic	50 _32nd
What happened Nick? You used to be cool
Oct 09, 2014	xacviant	86 _77th
Musician Nick Cave, on his supposed 20,000th day on Earth, reflects on his life and career, through interviews, conversations, and his fascinating music. Cave proves to be a great subject: a likable, thoughtful artist who is equally at home singing about his life in allegorical fashion, philosophizing with Kylie Minogue, and hanging out with his kids while watching SCARFACE. His ambition, to capture the elusive, the ethereal, the transcendental, makes up the thesis of this compelling film.
Oct 07, 2014	PetrosTser	70 _66th
It looks and sounds great. It's edited and directed in a wonderfully artistic way. It's interesting throughout, quirky and emotionally resonant. Worth watching and not only for Cave enthusiasts.
Sep 22, 2014	Rufam	70 _57th
With a striking, original structure and lots of flashy professionalism in the directing and editing departments, "20,000 Days on Earth" offers an adequately insightful peer into what is, without doubt, a deeply interesting man. Although I feel it is too self-centered, it can be alternately fascinating and touching, which is no small feat. (I will agree with Neonman though in that I'm more drawn to Cave's older, less purely narrative work.)
Aug 10, 2014	Neonman	67 _29th
Not a bad piece of semi-performative documentary with some interesting insights into how someone like Nick Cave works, but with not enough of this. The film is often stylised with a harsh edge, but the content itself is often very clean and un-rock 'n' roll and pales in comparison to other certain rockumentaries. I'm also not a fan of Nick Cave's new music, which is as bland and boring as this doco can be, and they take up a considerable amount of screen-time.
Aug 08, 2014	Ofterdingen	78 _91st
As self-absorbed as it's brilliant. The most private and honest portrait of a musician in recent memory.
Apr 22, 2016	theficionado	50 _48th
There's a lot to admire in this formally adventurous, fittingly oblique, & self-mythologizing look at an appropriately mythic figure in music. But the film never punctures the cocoon of the myth but rather is soberly complicit in Cave's construction of a persona: literary, self-devouring, true believer in art & his own visions. It made me crave something more like Velvet Goldmine or (especially) Listen Up, Philip, where an artist's attempts at self-mythology are pierced by an outside perspective

Average Percentile 61.06% from 309 Ratings