Kurt Cobain: About a Son

A quiet, immersive listen: a voice confessing over drifting landscapes, more elegy than biography, asking patience and rewarding it with intimacy.

Directed by

AJ Schnack

Genres

Documentary, Music

Starring

Kurt Cobain

Tagline

Kurt Cobain in his own words.

Overview

An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public, and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood.

How it feels

Melancholic, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Identity, isolation, ambition, memory

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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