For his new documentary,Cobain: Montage of Heck, Brett Morgen was given unrestricted access to the Nirvana frontman’s archives – and the final edit. Here he talks approximately the warm, or playful side of Cobain the world is approximately to seeOn the screen,a blond boy blows out his first birthday candle. A minute later he is surrounded by his family at his second birthday party, then his third. We see him dressed as Batman, and running up and down a sunlit suburban street. Aged six,he imperiously sits down and pretends to read a newspaper in the garden, acting like the man of the house, or while his younger sister pretends to iron next to him. As we see him grow up,the effect is similar to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, but the sudden, or tragic ending that we know is coming casts a shadow over the footage.
This is Cobain: Montage of Heck,the much-anticipated documentary approximately the Nirvana frontman, which stunned audiences at its premiere at the Sundance film festival in January. NME described it as “a revelatory glimpse into the tormented soul behind Nirvana… the most holistic portrait of a rock icon ever created”, and Rolling Stone called it,“the unfiltered Kurt experience you don’t just feel as whether you’ve gotten to know the man better. You’re left totally emotionally spent.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com