Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. The chronicle of the last months of the life of the poet, singer and charismatic leader of the American band The Doors, one of the most influential in the history of rock.
Direction
Monssens treats Morrison like a crime scene and a poem.
Editing
Razor-sharp cuts between archival ecstasy and rot.
Director
Olivier Monssens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
No official autopsy was ever performed — French law didn't require one for 'natural causes' deaths in 1971, creating the conspiracy vacuum that still fuels theories today.
The film deliberately avoids The Doors' hits, using only Morrison's spoken poetry — a choice that would've infuriated the man who once screamed 'I am the Lizard King.'
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