Who's in It: Kurt Cobain (voice)
The Basics: This is not a documentary about Nirvana. It's barely even a documentary. It consists of audio from interviews with Cobain, edited into a kind of travelogue narration about the Pacific Northwest, music, fame and drugs. There's no music by Nirvana in the film, and the visual stuff is an experimental blur of locations (some specific to the late artist's life) and unidentified people (virtually none specific to the late artist's life). It's kind of like that old Yul Brenner anti-smoking PSA, the one where he goes, "I'm dead now. Cigarettes gave me cancer. Stop smoking."
What's the Deal? As bizarre entertainments go, this one's no Kurt & Courtney, the late '90s doc that suggested that Mrs. Cobain might have possibly had the teensiest bit to do with her husband's death. This one's more like Tupac: Resurrection, but at least in that one, you got to hear the man's music, listen to his philosophies about hip-hop and find out that he was a not-so-secret fan of Kate Bush. As fascinatingly-narrated-from-beyond-the-grave movies go, 2Pac wins.
Things You Will Thrill to See: The mill where Cobain's dad worked and Cobain's apartment in Olympia (minus the wall on which Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna is reported to have spray-painted the graffiti "smells like teen spirit"). It's meant to be an impressionistic montage of the places that made the man, but there's really a lot of not much to see.
What's Actually Good: Cobain talking. It's sad and funny and heartbreaking (especially when he talks about getting off drugs), and you realize that he was headed for suicide for years. So it's worth buying a ticket for, if just to sit in the dark and listen with your eyes closed.