Nick Cave and Warren Ellis documentary This Much I Know to Be True reunites Bad Seeds collaborators with director Andrew Dominik

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have worked together since 1993, when Ellis played violin on the 1994 Bad Seeds album Let Love In.  (Supplied: Trafalgar/Charlie Gray)

There is a scene in the new documentary about Nick Cave that neatly sums up the artist's outlook on life.

Prevented from touring while in lockdown in Brighton, England, Cave embraced a new-found pastime after the British government obtusely pushed artists to retrain.