Kurt & Courtney (1998)
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67% of critics liked it
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45% of users liked it
(6,261 ratings)
British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Fetishes, Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam) made this portrait of the late rock-star Kurt Cobain and his widow, musician and actress Courtney Love. Beginning with the 27-year-old Cobain's April 1994 suicide, Broomfield traces Cobain's Aberdeen,… More British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Fetishes, Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam) made this portrait of the late rock-star Kurt Cobain and his widow, musician and actress Courtney Love. Beginning with the 27-year-old Cobain's April 1994 suicide, Broomfield traces Cobain's Aberdeen, Washington, childhood and rise to fame, and the 1992 marriage of Cobain and Love, outlining the drug habits the two shared and exploring various "conspiracy" theories surrounding Cobain's death. Legal complications yanked this film both from a scheduled December 1997 BBC airing and a showing at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Directed By
- Nick Broomfield
- Genres
- Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest
- In Theaters
- Feb 27, 1998 Wide
- Studio
- Roxie Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
This patchwork portrait is hard to look away from, partly because it exposes how one man rationalizes the dirty job of being a documentary filmmaker.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety
In the end, too, we've learned very little about Cobain's demons --- his alleged chronic stomach pains from stress, etc. --- or why he, and Nirvana, became so important to so many people
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, Time Out
[A] funny, angry, provocative film.
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Unreliable and categorically unfriendly to Love though it is, Kurt & Courtney is thoroughly watchable in a bad car accident, trash TV kind of way.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
When Kurt and Courtney veers into speculation and gives voice to bizarre and unreliable witnesses, it reeks of tabloid excess.
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Cast
- Courtney Love
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Nick Broomfield
as Interviewer
- Kurt Cobain
- El Duce
- Hank Harrison
- Tom Grant
- Larry Flynt

