The KINDNESS of STRANGERS
A few years ago, when Kiwis could harmlessly pop across the ditch for a holiday, Deborah Smith got on a plane for a trip to Sydney, buckled up, sat back and began to watch a film. Soaring 36,000 feet above the Tasman, she found herself taking notes, overwhelmed with sadness and inextricably drawn to the couple in the film she was watching.
That film was One More Time with Feeling, a documentary which follows Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds recording the album Skeleton Tree in the wake of the tragic death of Nick and his wife Susie Cave’s 15-year-old son, Arthur, who fell from a cliff. The main subject is legendary rock star Nick, but it is the beautiful and somewhat reclusive Susie who the audience strains to see. A fashion designer and former supermodel, and the subject of some of the greatest love songs ever written, Susie keeps a shrouded presence in the film, maintaining her dignity and moving in and out of the shadows as the camera captures this shocking and unexpected rupture in their lives.
Susanna Andrew finds out how a message of gratitude
