Kurt & Courtney

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Kurt & Courtney

R

1998

1h 40m

Documentary

Crime

Drama

Music

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Filmmaker Nick Broomfield gives an account of the tumultuous life shared by musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

Critics Consensus

Even if its desultory drift keeps it from reaching nirvana, Kurt & Courtney is an entertaining attempt to chronicle the life and death of a troubled genius.

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Paul Tatara

CNN.com

02/09/2018

Turns out that the whole movie is wobbly, a slapdash, unsure concoction of hearsay and decrepitness that does for the documentary format what shows like Hard Copy do for TV journalism. "Sleazy" isn't the word for it.

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Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

04/11/2014

Our culture has notoriously short attention spans and memories, but Kurt and Courtney goes a long way toward undoing the meticulous public relations campaign that Love has orchestrated in an effort to whitewash her tarnished image.

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Daphne Merkin

The New Yorker

04/11/2014

The true circumstances of Cobain's death remain cloudy, but one comes away from the film unnerved by the distance travelled.

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Carey-Ann Pawsey

Orca Sound

05/15/2020

3/5

Does not seem very unbiased. You are left to draw your own conclusions. But it certainly is an interesting 94 minute watch.

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Benjamin H. Smith

Decider

03/18/2019

Kurt & Courtney wasn't well received upon its release and 20 years later it fares no better.

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PJ Nabarro

Patrick Nabarro

01/27/2019

3/5

The sheer eccentricity, deprivation and unreliability of the players Broomfield visits imprints that a violent end was an almost inevitable outcome to the Kurt & Courtney tale

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Nick Broomfield gives an account of the tumultuous life shared by musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

Director: Nick Broomfield
Producer: Nick Broomfield, Ben Silverman
Production Co: Strength Ltd.
Rating: R
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama, Music
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $678.8K
Runtime: 1h 40m