Came in with no real relationship to Nick Cave or his music and loved this trip... It doesn't exactly enter F FOR FAKE territory, but it's just contrived and calibrated enough, with Cave openly musing about his fascination with narratives and instinctive need to embellish his own experiences, that it wouldn't shock me to learn that the "documentary's" only bit of truth – so far as these things go – is what I came in already knowing: Cave is a fringe rock star who spends a lot of time writing and recording songs. Maybe he doesn't live in Brighton, isn't married to a (stunning) woman named Suzie, doesn't have twin boys, doesn't see a therapist, and there's no team of…

"I am transforming, I am vibrating - I'm glowing - I'm flying! Look at me now!"

I used to suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's much better now - I'm miserable all the year round these days - and one of the ways I used to get it under control was to take photos and videos of grey, rainy skies. If I could take the weather that was troubling me and turn it into a matter of exposure lengths and f-stops, I could control it.

One of the many, many, many revelations of Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth's new film about Nick Cave is that he used to do the same thing. Although Cave never struck me as the sort…

Nick Cave plays Nick Cave in a 'documentary' that at times seems to encompass larger cinematic proportions than you would typically associate with the genre. The film is presented as his 20,000 day alive since birth, 24 hours in the life of an artist, a husband, a Dad, a dreamer, a realist and a middle-age man living in Brighton. To call this a documentary is not really true in the strictest sense, regularly drifting into the fictional realm so often inhabited by its subjects songs.

Certainly if you are turned on by the idea of delving into an artists creative process, being taken into the confusing, restless mind that attempts to make sense of their life and world around them…

Now I will tell you how to slay the dragon.

20,000 Days on Earth is simply the feeling you get when something higher than yourself is levelling with you. Nick Cave, a being drifting around in the philosophical stratosphere at the dumbest of times, is an artist that I never expected to decipher, nor even appreciate. The trailer of this quasi-documentary suggests further impenetrable ramblings about 'Important Stuff', yet I can't imagine a more inviting and welcoming creation of random musings than this.

Tinkering with structure playfully, 20,000 Days's concept is slight yet expansive. Following Nick Cave's 20,000th day on Planet Earth (we can only assume he's spent many more days on other planets), it segues between reminiscing about the…

A portrait of the artist as a God.

And I thought I loved Nick Cave before watching this film. Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard pull off something quite remarkable with this fictional documentary that would make Errol Morris blush, that follows Nick Cave around the time of the recording of his latest album, Push The Sky Away. While an absolute boon to fans of the artist, Murder Ballads was a seminal album in my development as a teenager (one of the few I could say shaped me) 20,000 Days On Earth has bigger targets in its sight, including an exploration of the very nature of artistic expression, and can be appreciated by anyone unfamiliar with his work. Many scenes…

"Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake"

Nick Cave is a poet. I won't pretend to understand everything he's saying. I dig his music, and I just sort of leave it at that. A surface level relationship up to this point. This documentary delves a bit deeper into this mysterious, sometimes scary front man of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Or does it?

I was a bit turned off by the format of this "documentary" initially. The whole thing is staged. It's filmed like a scripted piece and it most likely is a mostly scripted film. It feels like it's directed by Cave himself. It's a dark, brooding piece, very similar in feel to the music that…

A biopic/documentary on writer/singer/actor/performer/Bad Seed Nick Cave was never going to be ordinary. Not in his hands.

To be fair actually, massive credit on this endlessly fascinating insight into the (20,000th) day of a hard-working and much-adored artist goes to the writing and directing team of Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Having worked with the Bad Seeds before, they are allowed unusual access into the recording of the latest album PUSH THE SKY AWAY as they get the ball rolling on a film about its enigmatically intense frontman Nick Cave.

But the cameras start rolling on his alarm clock and him waking up in bed with his wife Suzie to go about his day. We'll not see much of her…

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

While there are certainly aspects of this that reek of pretentiousness and borderline condescension, it's still a film centered around Nick Cave who is the coolest so bug off with all that bollocks. Okay maybe I should say more than that, so what can be possibly said about this odd mixture of truth and fiction ( It's false!), that it has a fair amount of self-reflection and sincerity behind all that previous crap I've mentioned, that Nick cringes…

The thing I like about semi-fictitious documentaries is that you’re never told which parts are real and which parts are fake. You can either choose to believe everything that is unfolding onscreen as the truth, or you can dismiss it all as pure and utter tosh. 20,000 Days on Earth takes this to a new height, although not in the same way as F For Fake. This film takes the viewer into the 20000th day in the life of Nick Cave, a musician who is usually shrouded in mystery. I first came across Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds through their appearance in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, and I was instantly hooked. Despite all of his mystique and intrigue, the…