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Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

Released Sep 1, 2023 1h 26m Documentary Music List
100% Tomatometer 11 Reviews
Hailed as "a one band war", The Birthday Party with Nick Cave was one of the definitive post-punk groups and goth rock pioneers, creative and destructive in equal measure. Their incendiary live performances were the stuff of violent, anarchic legend. Featuring a wealth of rare and unseen archives, original artwork, unreleased tracks, studio footage, animation, and told exclusively by the group's members, MUTINY IN HEAVEN is the story of epic struggle, artistic genius and total chaos, bringing the band's own account to the screen for the first time. Read More Read Less

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Luke Buckmaster Guardian It’s not just the subjects who rock out but the whole cinematic kit and caboodle, with White imparting a sense that the film, too, is necking bottles, smoking dream pipes and banging around in the mosh pit, soon to wake up with a terrible hangover. Nov 3, 2023 Full Review Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle What White captures is the raw yet deliberate, accidental but structured energy of the Birthday Party, and how a certain level of discomfort seemed to fuel their creativity and success. Rated: 3/5 Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Jamie Healy Radio Times It's early footage of The Birthday Party performing live that makes this such electric viewing, with Cave caterwauling and flailing around like a man possessed. Rated: 4/5 Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Sean Clancy Arkansas Democrat-Gazette It's not for everybody, but for those who are drawn to the Birthday Party's brand of bleak, poetic nihilism, it's heavenly. Rated: 89/100 Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Simon Miraudo Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1) An absolutely hectic primer on a seminal punk outfit. Rated: 3/5 Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Keva York ABC News (Australia) White maintains a tight focus on his subject, keeping the gushing, retroactive assessments to a cool minimum. Oct 27, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Hailed as "a one band war", The Birthday Party with Nick Cave was one of the definitive post-punk groups and goth rock pioneers, creative and destructive in equal measure. Their incendiary live performances were the stuff of violent, anarchic legend. Featuring a wealth of rare and unseen archives, original artwork, unreleased tracks, studio footage, animation, and told exclusively by the group's members, MUTINY IN HEAVEN is the story of epic struggle, artistic genius and total chaos, bringing the band's own account to the screen for the first time.
Director
Ian White
Producer
Greg Blakey, Ian White
Distributor
Cargo Film & Releasing
Genre
Documentary, Music
Original Language
Australian English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 1, 2023, Limited
Runtime
1h 26m
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