Last Days
by Gus Van Sant
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Actor: Asia Argento, Lukas Haas, Michael Pitt, Nicole Vicius, Scott Patrick GreenDirector: Gus Van Sant
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of Last Days
DVD Review: Boring
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie seems like an exploitation on an idea of what Kurt Cobain's last days may have been like. In the end, it is boring, long, slow, and completely ridiculous. DVD Review: "Do you say I'm sorry that I'm a rock 'n' roll cliche?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Much has been made of this film's minimalist and experimentalist style. At first glance, this is a horrible film. Really. The film's main character, Blake, a thinly-veiled interpretation of Kurt Cobain in his last days, doesn't do much of anything for the entire 96 minute running time. He mumbles imcomprehensibly at least 90% of the time, and the supporting cast might as well not say anything at all, because the viewer hasn't a clue what they're talking about. The film is drab, boring, and painful to sit through.
But so is addiction. So is living a life completely devoid of joy and connection with other human beings. So is feeling completely isolated from any human contact. So is dying from the inside out. In portraying these states, this film has a lot to say.
If you've already seen the film and are wondering why you don't understand Blake, don't worry. You're not meant to. The brilliance of this film is that it refuses to explain or justify a life of addiction, but rather shows you what it's really like. It's misery. It's isolation. It's entrapment, both in the mental and physical sense. And, in every way, it's mind-numbing.
Whether you've seen this film or are planning to, it's important that you know what you're getting yourself into. If you're looking for entertainment or any sort of Kurt Cobain biopic, you're wasting your time. However, if you want to gain some insight into the life and death of an addict, sans all Hollywood distortions or glorifications, you've found the perfect film. This film is honest, and honesty is not often entertaining. But it's real, and that's something one can almost never say about films dealing with addiction.
DVD Review: Great video
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for my 14-year old daugher, who is just discovering Kurt Cobain and she loved it. She's probably watched it 6 times since we bought it. DVD Review: Almost gave it two
Summary: 1 Stars
Gus Van Sant has had some movies that I've enjoyed. I knew of "Gerry" and frankly, I liked that movie. I can't get into this one. It's the same style as Gerry, the long shots, capturing the panorama, little dialogue, all things I kind of liked. Maybe it was that Gerry was energetic. The character in Last Days is just mentally out of synch and so he doesn't appear to be an interesting movie. The acting's great. DVD Review: horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
watch the trailer and you basically have the whole movie.
a guy who stumbles around high and mumbles to himself..
Description of Last Days
An official selection in the 2005 Cannes Film festival, GUS VAN SANT'S LAST DAYS is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. The film introduces us to Blake (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers), a brilliant, but troubled musician. Success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors. The film follows Blake through a handful of hours spent in and near his wooded home... a fugitive from his own life.DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Music Video:"Happy Song" by Pagoda
Other:The Making Of
Outtakes:On the set of Gus Van Sant's Last Days: The Long Dolly Shot
Gus Van Sant's Last Days is a film about the death of Kurt Cobain. While the name of the main character has been changed from Kurt to Blake and the setting of the suicide changed from a greenhouse in Seattle to a greenhouse in upstate New York, there's no mistaking this film is the product of Van Sant's imagination pursuing the final, lonely moments of the great '90s icon. Rock biopic fans seeking a traditionally gratifying plot should run as fast as they can from this movie and see Rock Star or Sid and Nancy instead; Gus Van Sant's methodology is all about the slow, oppressive creep of time. One shot lingers excruciatingly long on some random foliage outside Blake's (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers) mansion. In another, he makes cereal. Then he sits on a bench for awhile. Or mumbles dialogue to a Yellow Pages ad salesman played by a real-life Yellow Pages ad salesman. Or gradually collapses while watching a Boyz 2 Men video. Meanwhile, Blake's parasitical hangers-on are slightly more animated, occupying his chilly house and clearly on their way to becoming as existentially destitute as he. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon appears, pretty much reprising an interventionist role she must have played with the real-life Cobain, but this rock star is far beyond rescuing from the brink. Later, when Blake ventures into town to see a punk show, he is cornered by an acquaintance played by Harmony Korine, who tells him a hilarious story about playing Dungeons and Dragons with Jerry Garcia. Where the accumulation of small moments like these don't add up to much drama, they create a pervading sense of dread and sad inevitability. In his life, Cobain railed against all that was phony and hyped; by crafting a visual poem resolutely defiant of rock star spectacle, Van Sant honors the late singer as sincerely as he can, by keeping it real. --Ryan Boudinot
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