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Last Days (2005)
"Last Days" is filmmaker Gus Van Sant's meditation on the inner turmoil that engulfs a brilliant, but troubled, musician in the final hours of his life. Michael Pitt stars as Blake, an introspective artist who is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations, and a mounting feeling of isolation. "Last Days" follows Blake through a handful of hours he spends in and near his wooded home, a fugitive from his own life. It is a period of random moments and fractured consciousness, fused by spontaneous bursts of rock & roll. Expanding on the elliptical style forged in his two previous films, "Gerry" and the Palme d'Or-winning "Elephant," Van Sant layers images and sounds to articulate an emotional landscape, creating a dynamic work about a soul in transition. (read more)
| Release Date: | July 22nd, 2005 |
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Last Days Movie Review by Rodney  (1/19/2006) |
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Apparently Match Flick won't let me rate this film any lower than half a star, but I assure you, it wouldn't even deserve that.
Gus Van Sant's latest effort (if an effort at all) Last Days, is a depressing and unsettling film that chronicles the final hours of an apathetic and drugged up rocker. Michael Pitt (Murder By...
(complete Last Days review by Rodney)
| Last Days Movie Review by Justin (1/16/2006) |
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This is the third in a string of ineffectual, pretentious 'slice-of-life' flicks by Gus Van Sant. Along with "Gerry" and "Elephant," "Last Days" follows suit by detailing, in creepy voyeuristic fashion, the demise of a Kurt Cobain-like rocker named Blake as he takes the plunge in finalizing his long, slow death. He...
(complete Last Days review by Justin)
| Last Days Movie Review by Elizabeth (7/22/2005) |
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As the final credits roll on LAST DAYS, the starkly beautiful new film from Gus Van Sandt, a note cautions viewers that the events depicted are only partially based on Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's final days before his suicide in 1994. Cautionary note or no, after watching LAST DAYS it is difficult to accept it as...
(complete Last Days review by Elizabeth)
| Last Days Movie Review by Jen (4/16/2006) |
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Last Days has potential. The premise is great, as is the cinematography. It chronicles the final hours of rock star "Blake" (Blatently a portrait of Kurt Cobain played perfectly by Michael Pitt) as he slowly descends into deep depression and finally death.
What is unfortunate about this film, however, is its inability to...
(complete Last Days review by Jen)
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