The Death of Bunny Munro ★★★

From caterwauling punk to national treasure, Nick Cave has forged a genuinely distinctive voice over the last 50 years. Few musicians have been able to make one of his songs their own, and on the evidence of this seesawing limited series, adapted from Cave’s 2009 novel of the same name, bringing his writing to the screen may be equally challenging. A coming-of-age crisis brought into focus by sexual addiction and big daddy delusions, The Death of Bunny Munro is a pungent British drama that wants to have it all.

Matt Smith and Rafael Mathe are a mismatched father and son in The Death of Bunny Munro.

Perhaps it’s left out of kilter by the sheer swagger of Matt Smith as Bunny Munro, a seller of women’s cosmetics – “by appointment”, not door-to-door – who’s

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