The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 17, 2015

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Music, Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

Production Companies

Splice Post

Director

Julien Temple

Description

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson confronts our worst nightmares of impending death and turns them upside down. It tells the extraordinary, yet universal story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a few months to live, accepted his fate with uplifting positivity and embarked on a farewell tour, capturing the imagination of the world as he went. But like every good story Wilko's has a damn fine twist in its tail. Two years later and confounding the odds, Wilko wakes up in a hospital bed, unexpectedly sentenced to live, having now to integrate those enlightened lessons learnt under sentence of death into the unexpected and ongoing future of his life.