10 Crazy Revelations About Kurt And Courtney's Relationship In Montage Of Heck

Montage of Heck, a biopic of the Nirvana frontman assembled from never-before-seen home movies, drawings, concert footage, and interviews with figures central to Cobain's life, including his former bandmate Krist Novoselic (though not Dave Grohl), mother Wendy O'Connor and former wife Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain's daughter: "I don't really like Nirvana" Cobain and Love's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, is credited as an executive producer on the film, which was written, directed and produced by Brett Morgen. Though she was interviewed for the film, and footage of her relationship with Cobain is the primary focus of the second hour, Love had no creative control over the project. The result is a messy, unfiltered portrait of life in the Cobain-Love household, which is alternately sad, scary and downright insane. Love claims she had already kicked heroin by the time she metCobain, but that her husband embraced his identity as an addict. Novoselic seems to support this, saying that Love's drug use was "all part of the package of building a home," in Cobain's mind. What you didn't see at Nirvana's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction After his wedding to Love, even though Nirvana was at the height of its popularity, Cobain opted to scrap tour plans (and all the money that would have come with it) and take six months off. For every adorable moment of Cobain playing with a kitten, making silly faces at Frances or bantering with Love in their bathroom, there's equally disturbing footage of their filthy home (which looks like a stereotypical drug den), or inebriated antics like Love climbing on Kurt's back, singing "I wanna be your girlfriend," as he smashes a guitar. [...] there are also ample shots of Love flashing the camera. "If anything is going to stop me from pursuing this rock 'n' roll thing, it's going to be her because I don't want her to be screwed up because of it," Cobain tells an interviewer shortly aft