Dominik, best known for feature films such as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, was speaking to journalists as One More Time With Feeling received its world premiere at the Venice film festival.
Nick Cave decided to make a documentary about his new album Skeleton Tree to avoid having to discuss the painful subject of his son Arthur’s death with the media, said One More Time With Feeling director Andrew Dominik.
One More Time With Feeling contains long sequences of Cave musing on philosophical issues surrounding his son’s death, and its relation to his own life and work.
However, Dominik said that making the film was not likely to have been “therapeutic” for Cave.