Synopsis:

An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain told entirely in his own voice without celebrity sound bytes, news clips, sensational tabloid angles or attempts to mimic a grunge aesthetic.  Instead, filmmaker AJ Schnack has created something closer to an autobiography of Cobain, a profound first hand account of Cobain's own successes and failures, thoughts and experiences.

Brian's Rating: D+ : I thought I would like this movie.  I was a big Nirvana fan (like every other kid my age), and anytime a rock star blows his head off, it creates some interest. 

The film consisted entirely of interviews conducted with him about a year before he ate his buckshot breakfast.  The film laid the audio from those interviews over footage chosen to be relevant to his subject matter.  For instance, if he was talking about playing around in a lumber yard as a kid, then the footage would be of a lumber yard.  Sometimes, the footage was just purely random artistic stuff.  One shot, a clear reference to the cover art from his album "Nevermind".  In the background you got to hear various tracks that he mentions either directly, or indirectly, as being influential to him.  This approach was artistic, and by itself, was a good idea.

So what didn't I like?  I didn't like that this was indeed everything.  There were no shots of Cobain until the very end after he was done talking.  There were no outside interviews, nor any outside information at all.  In fact, you only hear the interviewer asking the question one or 2 times, and once near the end you get to here Courtney Love ask for a baby bottle.  The artistic approach was a good idea, however I quickly grew tired of it.  I wanted some change, something to break up the monotonous monologue by Cobain.  You do not get it.  All you hear is Cobain's nonchalant voice the entire time, only showing any form of emotion on one or 2 occasions.

If you are not a Nirvana fan, I cannot imagine why you would bother to sit through this film.  There would simply not be anything to hold your interest.

Somehow it got decent ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, and it was nominated for some random award, so if that's your thing, then sure, give it a shot.

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