14. One More Time With Feeling

14. ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING

Director: Andrew Dominik

Release date: September 8, 2016

Following the tragic death of his son in July 2015, revered songwriter and lyricist Nick Cave invited filmmaker and collaborator Andrew Dominik to chart the making of his 16th studio record, Skeleton Tree. Captured almost entirely in eerie, sombre black and white, One More Time With Feeling is not just an insight into Cave and his band The Bad Seeds’ creative process, but also a painfully intimate document of this traumatic upheaval that Cave found himself in.

The film is as uncomfortably personal as one might expect, especially if you’re aware of Cave and his family’s loss before viewing. But through that intimacy the film grows into a broader exploration of death and creation, as Cave ruminates on whether such crippling pain really is conducive to the making of art. The songwriter is numbed by his son’s passing, yet finds a way to craft what is perhaps his greatest musical achievement.