Kurt & Courtney

Courtney smearing campaign
This movie had very little to do with Kurt. It was mostly about dragging Courtney's name through the mud. I'm not Team Love by any means, but this is absolutely NOT unbiased journalism. If you have seen this or are about to see this movie, I would encourage you to check out some of Courtney's more recent interviews before letting this slanted film form your opinion for you. I'm left a bit unsatisfied on what I thought would be a documentary vice the smear campaign it turned out to be.

Who killed Kurt Cobain?
One of the biggest conspiracy theories in rock'n'roll involves the death of Kurt Cobain. Was it really suicide, or did someone murder him?

And from this we get "Kurt and Courtney," Nick Broomfield's now-legendary documentary that explores the life of Kurt Cobain, his relationship with his wife Courtney Love, and the question of whether he was murdered. There's a lot of good material floating around, but the heavy slant throws the whole film off-balance.

First, Broomfield interviews many people who knew Cobain during his younger years -- his teacher, his first love, and an aunt of Cobain's. His hometown, loves, artistic leanings and rough upbringing are examined in detail. But after examining his life in Nirvana and his relationship with rocker Courtney Love, Broomfield begins examining the question: did Love kill him, or did he really commit suicide?

He interviews Hank Harrison (Love's father), a PI crusading to have Cobain's case reopened, a creepy...

1 Hr and 35 Minutes of Pure Drivel. Don't Waste Your Time!
This documentary contains nothing but ill-focused and unorganized filler from mostly unwilling and misinformed participants. The most insightful information is presented through interviews with Kurt Cobain's aunt Mary,his former live-in girlfriend Tracy Marander, his friend and former drug buddy Dylan Carlson (the inspiration for their song "In Bloom"), and brief past interviews with Cobain himself. The purpose of Broomfield's documentary is muddled, as he claimed to want to tell the story of Kurt and Courtney and appeared to be in a neutral position, but ended up giving camera time to anyone and everyone who had a negative word to say against Courtney Love. A former, obviously bitter boyfriend; shock rocker El Duce, Courtney's estranged father Hank Harrison, and private investigator Tom Grant--all of whom never even met Kurt in person--were treated as experts. The most wasteful testimony came from a young woman who claimed to know Kurt and Courtney very well through a mutual...

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