You've got family films from when Kurt was young, personal audio diaries from him and video that captures these really intimate moments between Kurt and Courtney Love and his daughter.
So this is a pretty amazing project, because you were given access to all of these family archives. "The idea was not to tear him down, nor was it to put him on a pedestal," Morgen tells NPR's Rachel Martin.Īt the audio link above and in the extended conversation below, Morgen talks about hearing tape of Kurt Cobain recounting an attempted suicide as a teenager, the musician's complicated relationship with Courtney Love and how the family reacted to footage of Cobain's drug use. It makes sense when you know that executive producer Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt's daughter, gave director Brett Morgen the dictate, "Keep it real and make it honest." And it's a film that is, at times, hard to watch.
It gives motion to Cobain's artwork and photographs, and spends time with his media-averse family. It's a narrative that perpetuates itself partly because of the power it holds in the songs Cobain wrote for Nirvana.īut a new HBO documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, looks beyond that well-known story.
Ever since his death on April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain's life story has become the stuff of myth - a happy-go-lucky kid traumatized by his parents' divorce a tortured-genius teenager turned a brilliant, disturbed musician a drug addict who took his own life.
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