A film about the U2 album Achtung Baby has opened the Toronto Film Festival.
The new documentary, called From The Sky Down, was made by director Davis Guggenheim and examines the making of the 20-year-old album in Berlin, Germany, that helped to reinvent the band.
Speaking at the festival, U2 frontman Bono believes the band will stick together until they die and that they are "unemployable" beyond their roles after 35 years in the quartet.
Bono said the group - which headlined Glastonbury Festival this summer - were united by “a kind of belligerent respect” for each other. “We’re unemployable, you know, it’s like the priesthood, there’s only one way out, in a coffin.”
However, Bono said he found it difficult to trawl through the past. “I found it very hard to watch to be honest with you. We’re not very good at looking back at things. I mean Edge - when he put together our Best Of collections - forced me, actually had to physically force me, to listen to it before it went out.”
“I’m just not interested in what we’ve done, I’m always more interested in what we’re about to do. But you know, for this album, we made an exception.”
The frontman said he was intrigued about why someone would want to see how the LP was assembled.
“It’s like a load of songs and they turned out pretty good in the end, and this is a film about how they nearly didn’t. I don’t know why anyone would watch it, I really don’t,” Bono said.
The Edge added: “I think it’s not a movie about us, per se, it’s really about how bands function, or in this case, don’t function.”
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