Courtney Love's Tearful Response to the New Kurt Cobain Documentary

Tribeca Film Festival Live | Apr 20, 2015

Montage of Heck, the first authorized documentary about the late Kurt Cobain, combines home movies, journal entries, and interviews with those who knew him best and knew him early for a striking portrait of the artist who's still celebrated 20 years after his death. Courtney Love, Cobain's former wife, teared up after a screening of the film at the Tribeca Film Festival, telling director Brett Morgen that the movie made her rethink whether she could have prevented Cobain's suicide.

Love also discussed the impact of watching the movie with her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, who was an executive producer of the film. And addressing a scene in the movie of Love and Cobain kissing, etc., Love wryly told the audience, "everyone makes one sex tape once in their lives."

Moderating this panel between Courtney Love and Brett Morgen is Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss. Montage of Heck premiers on HBO May 4.

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