The Road to God Knows Where (1990)
Documentary of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1989 tour of America.
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The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
If you expect extravagant footage look some place else. The Road To God Knows Where is shot on the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 1989 American tour (promoting the Tender Prey album) and carefully documents how the band is off stage, away from the spotlights. The camera work is simple and effective and there is little live footage (after all this is a documentary of a tour, so it's natural that they included a few shots here and there). Besides the charming Bad Seeds (unfortunately you don't get to see a lot of Thomas Wyndler and Roland Wolf), we also see a little of Lydia Lunch and Anita Lane. There are several memorable scenes like when Nick dances to Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" at sound check. If you have the DVD release you might want to see it with subtitles at first time since the sound is quite low. I've got no other complains. I enjoyed every minute of it. It's simple, it's beautiful, it's Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds at one of their finest moments in their career.
A demonstration of simplicity, a disarming road movie, not pretentious, little edited, extremely truth and completely naked. It´s evidently a fan's piece.I stand and applause..
This film was probably the best documentary of nick cave i have ever seen. If you're a real fan, get it. If not, you probably would hate it, as the sound is pretty bad (very quiet), and (i think) it is mainly black and white. Anyway, well worth the watch.