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20,000 DAYS ON EARTH

By | January 2014

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION SELECTION! If there are truths about Nick Cave to be found in this film, I don’t know that they will reveal anything he doesn’t want revealed. Then again, if you set aside the idea that you’re watching a definitive biography about Nick Cave and instead accept that it is something else (something arguably more interesting, no offense meant to Nick Cave), then the film reveals its brilliance…

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