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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Documentary, Biography, Music

An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.


The critical consensus

Like a Cobain mixtape brought to feral life, Montage is scruffy, sharp and insightful on an oft-explored subject. The pay-off is terribly moving – it’ll drain you.

****(*)Kevin Harley, Total Film, 06/04/2015

Slightly overlong and glosses over certain aspects but a profound examination of a tortured artist.

***(*)(*)James Dyer, Empire Online, 06/04/2015

Ultimately it's a film that didn't need this many bells and whistles for it to pack an almighty punch.

****(*)Emma Simmonds, The List, 06/04/2015

Fascinating yet almost inevitably self-defeating.

***(*)(*)Adam Woodward, Little White Lies, 08/04/2015

Brett Morgen's documentary about Nirvana rock star Kurt Cobain, who died aged 27 in 1994, is both extraordinarily intimate and strangely evasive.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 09/04/2015

Frustratingly, the film never properly discusses the most important subject: Cobain’s music – the extraordinary self-harming, self-dramatising rage in that gravelly voice that seductively switched from a roar to a plaintive murmur of devastatingly catchy tunefulness. It’s a real 90s time-capsule.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 09/04/2015

Though Cobain: Montage of Heck is unlikely to be the last word on the subject – the Nirvana legend is, ironically, far too lucrative now for that – it certainly deserves to be.

*****Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 11/04/2015

There’s no shortage of home movie footage of Kurt Cobain, but his brilliance is only revealed at the end of this padded-out documentary.

**(*)(*)(*)Jonathan Romney, The Observer, 12/04/2015


Features about Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Kurt Cobain: One heck of a life

Emma Jones, BBC, 07/04/2015

Brett Morgen on Getting to Know the Real Kurt Cobain

Adam Woodward, Little White Lies, 07/04/2015

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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