The Road to God Knows Where is a 1990 documentary directed by German filmmaker Uli M. Schüppel. The subject of the movie is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as they traverse America on the Tender Prey tour in early 1989.
The documentary is short on music and long on backstage palaver. Occasionally we get most of a song such as “Knockin’ On Joe” but mostly it’s the dudes hanging out, occasionally with the Wolfgang Press, who served as openers on the tour. The lineup at this point was Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey, Kid Congo Powers, Roland Wolf, and Thomas Wydler.
The movie is shot in a lush and shadowy black and white that is intermittently reminiscent of Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel Über Berlin, which came out just a couple of years earlier and which (of course) Nick Cave appeared in.
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