After making its debut at Sundance earlier this year to rapturous critical acclaim, we’re incredibly thrilled to bring you the first trailer for ‘Cobain: Montage of Heck’ the first ever fully authorised documentary about the life of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.



Watch it above.

Director Brett Morgen worked with closely Kurt’s friends and family including his daughter Frances Bean (now 22) to create the most intimate portrait of the doomed rocker ever committed to film.

The documentary features acres of previously unseen or rare footage of the Washington-born musician, including new music and home video footage shot at home with Courtney Love and his daughter, along with new animations created specifically for the film.

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It’s an unflinching portrayal of the grunge star who tragically took his own life in 1994 aged 27, and the director told us this warts and all approach was only possible thanks to being granted final cut of the documentary.

He promises ‘Cobain: Montage of Heck’ won’t “perpetuate any myths or romanticize his drug use” but will finally help to “identify the man behind the myth.”

Read the rest of our exclusive Q&A with director Brett Morgen below.

What can we expect to learn about of Kurt? Is there anything new that audiences may not have seen before?

“Roughly 85% of the material that audiences will see in Montage of Heck has never been seen or rarely seen. This includes several audio cues, portions of a recorded autobiography, a Cobain cover of The Beatles “And I Love Her,” extensive home movies of Kurt’s childhood and never before seen interviews with Kurt’s father, mother, and sister. The film also features never before seen footage of Kurt at home with Courtney and Frances.”

What was the most surprising stuff you found out about Kurt?

“Kurt was known to the world as a musician, but before that and after that he was an artist. He worked in just about every form of media he could including painting, sculpting, filmmaking, sound collages, cartoon strips, short fiction, journal writing, photography, and of course music. Like any artist, Kurt left behind a visual and aural autobiography of his life. It was embedded in his work. Given how expressive he was across so many platforms, his life works makes a complete cinematic canvas that invites the viewer to take a journey through Kurt’s interior world.”

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