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Kurt & Courtney

1998

Nick Broomfield

Documentary, Self: Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Nick Broomfield

5.4

1,433

Documentary After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provides home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow Courtney Love, an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love, a nanny for Kurt and Courtney's child, friends and lovers of both, and others. Although Love won't talk to him and his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"Haunting, bleak, tragic, occasionally unintentionally funny, 'Kurt And Courtney' makes a mockery of TV documentaries where slick editing creates only artifice (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Broomfield is a one-man band, a BBC filmmaker who travels light and specializes in the American sex-'n'-violence scene (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Joshua Klein AV Club	"Broomfield is good at getting his sleazy subjects to speak, but he's not terribly adept at eliciting the truth. Broomfield wastes a good deal of time with this 'he said/she said' stuff"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'Kurt & Courtney & Nick' would be a more descriptive title (...) [It] includes generous portions of himself [Nick Bloomfield] (...) [It] is thoroughly watchable in a bad car accident, trash TV kind of way."	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday Baltimore Sun	"A torturous series of interviews (...) This is a dirty piece of work, and everyone it touches -- especially audiences -- deserved better."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[A] funny, angry, provocative film (...) Broomfield is intuitive, opportunistic and upfront"	POS
United States	Daniel Kreps Rolling Stone	"[It] inspired a nation of conspiracy theorists to flood YouTube with their own 'Kurt was murdered' videos."	POS

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