2015 · documentary · music
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Directed by Brett Morgen2h 12m2015
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.
Our read: Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive documentary · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured documentary / music, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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