British rock stars seem to age well, when their traditional bad habits permit them to age at all. Singer, writer and punk-rock icon Nick Cave has become a sharp-dressed string-bean of a man who lives in gorgeous digs and writes long songs with lyrics like “Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake.”
Directors Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard set up conversations with everyone from a psychoanalyst to one-time collaborator Kylie Minogue, and let Cave take it from there. The results are remarkably intelligent and entertaining, even for someone who (like this writer) finds Cave’s music rather dirge-like.
When he reads a rhapsodic piece about seeing his wife for the first time or reminisces about his youthful habit of attending church before ambling off to score drugs, it’s easy to see what attracts Cave’s fans.