Aside from a few black-and-white photographs, Kurt Cobain never appears in this documentary, nor is a single note of his music ever heard. Instead, filmmaker AJ Schnack's hauntingly beautiful film is a bold and successful attempt to recover the human being who disappeared under the heavy mantle of "face and voice of a lost generation," and whose life has been increasingly overshadowed by his sensational early death in 1994.
Schnack uses the hours of interviews music biographer Michael Azerrad conducted with Cobain between December 1992 and March 1993 (the last took place a year before Cobain's death) for his acclaimed book Come as You Are: The Story of N...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
94 mins