(Statler actually tackles one of Kurt & Courtney’s attempts to debunk Grant’s theory of the case.) The gist of Grant’s argument is that the Seattle police too quickly determined that Cobain took an overdose of heroin and then killed himself, and that they reached this conclusion by relying too much on the testimony of Love, who may have had reasons to want her husband dead. Soaked In Bleach’s contentions should be familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of Cobain’s death, or anyone who’s seen Nick Broomfield’s documentary Kurt & Courtney. At every stage, the film asserts its own veracity, in ways that eventually start to seem like overkill. Statler frequently begins scenes by playing Grant’s tapes, then shifting to actors-including Daniel Roebuck as Grant and Sarah Scott as Love-reciting the transcripts seemingly word-for-word, and sometimes even lip-synching along to the recordings. Grant meticulously documented every phase of the case, recording his interviews with Love, cops, and others. The big hook for Soaked In Bleach is that Statler has access to the audio files of private investigator Tom Grant, whom Courtney Love hired in the days between when Cobain went missing and when he was found dead. Soaked In Bleach rests uneasily between the two, combining talking heads and archival footage with scripted reenactments that run so long that they keep threatening to become the movie. Benjamin Statler’s Soaked In Bleach is an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Nirvana frontman’s death, and takes a form that’s not strictly documentary nor wholly docudrama.
Brett Morgen’s Montage Of Heck isn’t the only semi-experimental Kurt Cobain documentary on the circuit right now.
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