![]() Morgen has been working on the film for the better part of the last decade, with the consent of Cobain and Courtney Love's only child, their daughter Frances Bean. "Rather than mythmaking, the idea was to strip away the layers to try to reveal the man," Morgen says of Montage of Heck, which is out in select theaters this weekend and premieres on HBO May 4, "and in this case the man is so much more interesting than the myth." Exploring Cobain's entire life-his tumultuous childhood, Nirvana's rise to fame, his crippling drug addiction, and his untimely death-the film is a tough watch. But who was the man beneath the flowing blond hair, whiskey-soaked voice, and palpable angst? With his new documentary film, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, director Brett Morgen aimed to answer this question. Like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, or Bob Marley, the Nirvana frontman, who committed suicide at age 27 in 1994, was and remains an ever-present fixture on teenagers' bedroom walls. ![]() To those who came of age in the late '90s and early 2000s, Kurt Cobain is a mythological figure. ![]()
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