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One More Time with Feeling

One More Time with Feeling

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This black-and-white documentary follows Australian musician Nick Cave as he works on the album Skeleton Tree with his band the Bad Seeds in the aftermath of the death of his son. Through beautiful performance footage and personal interviews, the film artistically explores grief and music.

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Time by Stephanie Zacharek

Both gentle and staggering, an examination of the way our personal experiences can spur creativity—or render it inconsequential.

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IndieWire by Ben Croll

Shrouded in grief and chilly to the core, Andrew Dominik’s mournful documentary One More Time With Feeling is at once sobering in tone and intoxicating in style.

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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

What Dominik gives us is a portrait of an artist and a man and a family at a low. He doesn’t try to understand, but he does find some beauty and truth among the chaos and despair.

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The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

This is a virtuosic piece of filmmaking art that also happens to be almost unbearably moving. Actually, there is no “almost.”

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Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

The aesthetic that Dominik has crafted is a pitch-perfect expression of Cave’s grappling with matters of time and space. It’s gorgeous and ghostly.

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RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams

Nothing can give shape or closure to Cave—and that's OK. Watching him continue his ongoing search for existential answers is comfort enough.

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The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor

The most remarkable thing about Dominik’s film is that we are not only humble witnesses to such personal grief, but that we are seeing it actively articulated by such a fascinating mind.

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The A.V. Club by Sean O'Neal

As a documentary, One More Time hesitates to say anything too neatly or directly. In that way, it is a uniquely effective meditation on grief.

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Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

To say that Dominik’s film touches on a raw nerve is an understatement, but the film, dedicated to the memory of Arthur, is revealing both about these musicians’ creative processes, and about questions of mourning, trauma and emotional survival

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Screen International by Jonathan Romney

To say that Dominik’s film touches on a raw nerve is an understatement, but the film, dedicated to the memory of Arthur, is revealing both about these musicians’ creative processes, and about questions of mourning, trauma and emotional survival

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The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

What's most singular about the project — beautifully shot in black-and-white 3D, which often gives the images a beguiling disembodied quality — is that in addition to providing access to the creative process and deepening the album experience, it serves as a profoundly affecting reflection on the pain of parents who have lost a child.

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Variety by Owen Gleiberman

If it’s sometimes a rambling, indulgent experience, it’s also a beautiful one.

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The Guardian by Andrew Pulver

It’s an impressive spectacle, if not a happy one.

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CineVue by John Bleasdale

One More Time with Feeling is a bold poem in itself, a portrait of the artist struggling to understand the essentially incomprehensible.