I spend a significant amount of my movie watching time working on movies on a list, or up for an award. With the AFI Dallas Film Festival coming up next month I was browsing through the lineup from last you and spotted this film. Taking a detour for something that looked to be very interesting. For those who might not know, Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of the alternative rock band Nirvana in the early 90's. He was a musician that spawned an entire genre of music that I grew up listening to.Thing is, I didn't even start listening to Nirvana until after Cobain committed suicide. So for starters, if you have never heard of Nirvana or don't like Nirvana you will not like this film at all.
The premise of the film is that a collection of interview tapes with Kurt were discovered, in all over 25 hours of footage. The makers of this film have stitched all of these together to make an almost autobiographical film, I say almost because he obviously had no input into this. There are several points were you will hear the interviewer asking Kurt to elaborate on something he is talking about, but for the most part he speaks throughout the film. He begins with his childhood and goes all the way to his success with Nirvana and life with his wife and daughter.
So what exactly are we watching? All the footage is related to what is being talked about, but there is no evidence throughout whether the locations are authentic to where to grew up, or just footage the film makers took around their homes. He talks about himself in high school and the video will be showing a classroom filling with kids, or the halls of a school. He talks about his father working at the lumber mill and we see footage of a mill. So there isn't much to watch, you could even just listen without watching at all and not really miss much.
However, there is something to be said about the video footage. It is shot very well with some great time lapse footage of a sunrise. Also, the content does a pretty good job of constantly following the dialogue and I found myself staring at some of the scenes while completely focused on the audio track, rather than distracted by what I was watching or even just bored completely.
Kurt was a troubled kid, the way he talks about death make it pretty clear that were was no homicide conspiracy around his suicide. It was interesting to hear him try and justify his drug usage and his relationship with Courtney Love (e.g. his wife). I highly suggest this film to Nirvana and/or grunge rock fans, I don't think my daughters generation will get this film at all, time will tell.
Vote: 8/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790769/
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