Kurt And Courtney

Coasting on an oil slick of hype generated by grunge-girl diva Courtney Love's attempts to suppress it, UK shockumentarian Nick Broomfield's investigation into the death of rock idol Kurt Cobain exudes a near-irresistible freak-show fascination. Love comes off badly: Broomfield never succeeds in interviewing her at any length, but compiles a disturbing record of her harassment and intimidation of journalists she can't control, in light of which the hypocrisy of her carefully scripted remarks at an American Civil Liberties Union function is simply mind-boggling. But for all the conspiratorial talk, evidence that Love had anything to do with her husband's apparent su...