Courtney Love: Nuke Your Life – Sundance Documentary Review

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figures prominently in the film, as does intense media backlash, especially after Cobain’s suicide in April 1994. The same week Cobain died, Hole’s acclaimed second album Live Through This was released, and the band went on tour. “the grieving process was live,” recalls Erlandson. The film includes numerous clips of fans and pundits speculating that Love was responsible for Cobain’s death; at one Hole concert, an attender placed shotgun shells on the stage in front of her, precipitating a public breakdown.

Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain in 1993. Photograph: Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images

“She’s been pilloried again and again,” Stipe says in the film.While some was deserved – Love could be abrasive – “quite often, it was not”. Thirty years later, Love still appears emotional over both her bond with Cobain, even singing some Nirvana karaoke, and the inescapable tumult that followed his death. “Kurt Cobain walks into the fucking room before Courtney does,” she says in the film. “That’s just going to be my life.”

After a pivot to film, including a critically acclaimed performance in Miloš Forman’s The People vs Larry Flynt, Love released, with Hole, the 1999 album Celebrity Skin, which pivoted toward a mainstream sound. But the success was short-lived, as the demons caught up with her. Love disbanded Hole in the middle of a tour. Her actions became more erratic, and her drug use escalated. “If you want to nuke your life,do crack,” a now sober Love quips. As a teenager, Frances Bean sought legal emancipation from her mother. “I certainly was not the easiest mother, that’s the truth,” Love concedes. “I couldn’t focus on her at all.”

Love remains mum on the state of their relationship in the present, though by film’s end she’s off to visit her grandson, whom Frances bean shares with husband Riley hawk, in Los Angeles. The final song she composed for her forthcoming new album is about Frances.

That album still does not have a release date or a title but, according to the film, will feature collaboration from erstwhile bandmate Melissa Auf der Maur and Stipe. “I think it’s a lesson of ‘don’t do it until you’re called’,” she says of her new work. “You can call it ‘the recovery record’ or ‘the fucking almost died record’ or ‘the got granted a lease on life record’. I got to remain

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