“Cobain: Bloody montage” – Cinema Teatr.ru

Born in Nirvana

 

 « Cobain: Bloody installation » – visual and musical mosaic, where attention to detail personal life combined with a full waiver of any operational. During more than two hours a kaleidoscope of rushing excerpts from home movies shot on Super 8 camera, audio interviews and animation inserts about the youth of the future “rock icons of Generation X”, concert performances, pages from diaries and newspaper articles, videos, where Cobain and Courtney fooled stoned and playing with a tiny daughter Frances Bean . Admittedly, such a fascinating manner, even people far from the style of grunge in general and the group Nirvana in particular.

 

 Many music documentaries, which is already there is not imbued with a special love for music, and the lion’s share of documentary biopic looks like a calculated way to cash in on the fans of this or that popular personality. “Cobain: Bloody montage» Brett Morgen does not suffer from such defects. On the contrary, the director succeeds by playing in both fields. Get a lot of video and audio materials, pictures and diary entries from the parents of the musician and his widow, he was able to achieve the perfect balance between facts and humor.

 

 First of all, this is an example of a talented assembly (hard work SIDS and Joe Beshenkovski ) and audiodizayna (thanks to sound engineer Cameron Frankl ), but everything else is very touching and delicate movie intonation without vulgarity. By the way, Morgen worked not only with the material directly related to Nirvana and its leader. For example, when the director uses footage from the film 79-year « Over the edge », not just showing excerpts from the beloved film Kurt and directly says that teenage angst and problems, which Cobain sang , alien to the time frame. A good technique is the fact that the most obvious hits of sound in the film mostly in instrumental versions, and the song Smells Like Teen Spirit and all – on the closing credits.

 

 Strictly speaking, the film is divided into two parts: a happy childhood charming hyperactive boy and unhappy youth, when longing for parental love, troubled teen otfutbolivat from one family to the other; and musical career group Nirvana. The watershed runs clear after an hour, and, of course, for fans of the first part is much more interesting. It is obvious that the indulgence of the producer Courtney Love and Frances Bean , has forced the director to avoid any sharp edges and sensitive issues. Consciously not pedaliruetsya theme of drug addiction and complex relationships of Kurt and Courtney, and “talking heads” in the entire movie appears surprisingly little: in addition to the widow – father, mother, sister and bandmate, Chris Novoselic (drummer Dave Grohl The final installation failed, though, and was interviewed).

 

 It turns out that about “Nirvana” Morgen will not tell anything new, so perhaps it is not necessary – all that would like to know, we are not afraid to ask in magazines and on the Internet. But such an intimate look at Kurt Cobain – a talented musician and a man with too thin a skin – we have certainly not seen.

 

 « Cobain: Bloody installation » in the box with April 30.