Our culture has notoriously short attention spans and memories, but Kurt and Courtney goes a long way toward undoing the meticulous public relations campaign that Love has orchestrated in an effort to whitewash her tarnished image.
Overview
After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.
Director and cast
- Nick Broomfield Director
- Nick Broomfield as Interviewer
- Dylan Carlson as Himself
- Kurt Cobain as Himself (archive footage)
- El Duce as Himself
- Larry Flynt as Himself
- Tom Grant as Himself
- Hank Harrison as Himself
- Courtney Love as Herself
- Sam Rubin as Himself (archive footage)
- Vincent Schiavelli as Himself
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The true circumstances of Cobain's death remain cloudy, but one comes away from the film unnerved by the distance travelled.
Kurt and Courtney is an entertaining swim through the muck of the rock underworld. But as journalism, it's an utterly sloppy piece of work.
We do get a strong sense that Love is a loose cannon with a short fuse. But in a freewheeling documentary about a drug-addled rock-star couple that hardly qualifies as a news flash.
It would be one mondo bizarro freak show but for the participation of some who clearly cared for the troubled young Cobain.
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