Courtney Love opens up about her life on and offstage in the new documentary Antiheroine, which will premiere early next year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The event runs from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 and is the last in Park City and Salt Lake City before uprooting to Boulder, Co., in 2027.
Love, 61, will cover her tumultuous marriage to late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, her 2019 move from Los Angeles to London and her tenure in the band Hole, whose members Melissa Auf der Maur and Patty Schemel sat for interviews. R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong also make appearances.
“Singer, songwriter and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture,” reads the Antiheroine logline. “Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic.”
Antiheroine was directed by Edward Lovelace and James Hall, whose past work includes the 2014 Edwyn Collins doc The Possibilities Are Endless. Julia Nottingham’s Dorothy St. Pictures will produce. “Courtney has waited a long time to tell her story, in her own words,” Nottingham says. “As a child of the ’90s, I was always curious about Courtney, a woman who often appeared to be defined by her husband Kurt Cobain. We made this film because Courtney’s story is bigger than the headlines. It’s raw, complicated and deeply human.”
Love hasn’t released music with Hole since 2010 and her lone solo album remains 2004’s America’s Sweetheart. She surprisingly popped up last year as a guest on 070 Shake’s cover of the Tim Buckley classic, “Song to the Siren.”
“You guys have gotta get over it,” she told Vogue in 2021. “Our old manager Peter Mensch calls once a year to ask about a reunion: ‘Hey, just doing my thing I do every year with you and [Led Zeppelin’s] Jimmy Page.’ I’m so honored to be in that company, but it’s just not gonna happen.”
As previously reported, Auf der Maur’s memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, will be published March 17 through Da Capo.
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