Watch this when
One More Time with Feeling
He didn't say 'everything happens for a reason.' He said there are no words. Sometimes that's the most honest comfort. 🖤
Who it's for
Acute grief is often met with platitudes, and this film's greatest gift is refusing them: Cave openly rejects the comforting phrases people offer and describes grief as something that changes a person rather than something to get over.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Andrew Dominik's documentary follows Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as they record their sixteenth album, Skeleton Tree, at Air Studios in London after the death of Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur in 2015. It combines about 35 minutes of performance with interviews with Cave, Warren Ellis and Cave's wife Susie Bick, and Cave's spoken reflections.
Where to find it
Originally a one-night theatrical event (Sept 2016, extended by demand). Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: A teenage child's accidental death.
Age: Not rated (suggested 15+)
I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter LIX
