Last Days (2005)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 48
While the minimalist style is not for all viewers, those who prefer experimentalism will find Last Days hypnotic.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 14
While the minimalist style is not for all viewers, those who prefer experimentalism will find Last Days hypnotic.
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Filmmaker Gus Van Sant wrote and directed this meditation on stardom and its costs, inspired in part by the life and death of rock musician Kurt Cobain. Blake (Michael Pitt) is the leader of an influential alternative rock band who has unexpectedly won a large degree of fame and fortune. Depressed and unsure of what to do with himself or his success, Blake wanders about the run-down mansion he calls home and the visits the woods nearby. While a handful of friends live with Blake, he prefers to
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Nicole Vicius
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Harmony Korine
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Adam Friberg
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Thadeus A. Thomas
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All Critics (125) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (49) | DVD (15)
Van Sant's refusal to delve into his subject in anything but an abstract way renders the movie pointless and frustrating -- a lyrical, lovely tone poem, signifying little.
Top CriticA film about a junkie rock musician, played by Michael Pitt at his most narcissistic, doing nothing in particular for the better part of 97 minutes isn't my idea of either a good time or a serious endeavor.
While Last Days succeeds as a nature documentary, Van Sant fails to penetrate human nature. The result is a portrait without a face.
Last Days will cast a poetic spell on some viewers, as it did this one, and will seem mind-sappingly boring to others.
Last Days is director Gus Van Sant's meditation on the death of Kurt Cobain, and an extraordinary meditation it is.
Last Days offers some insight into Cobain's final frame of mind, but balks at the gates of deeper truth.
Wandering in a narcoleptic stupor, Pitt's junkie rock star is as much lost soul as tortured genius, and Van Sant refrains from tacky pop theorising or tired rock-crit veneration.
Boring, self-indulgent and punctuated by Van Sant's trademark homosexual kissing scene, "Last Days" will make you wish that this were Van Sant's last movie.
This tale of a Kurt Cobain-like rock star isn't for kids.
"Posljednji dani" bi vrlo lako mogli dovr%u0161iti ono %u0161to je prije vi%u0161e od jednog desetlje%u0107a zapo%u010Deo hitac iz sa%u010Dmarice.
The film will likely divide viewers, striking many as a self-indulgent wallow, others as a rewarding envelope-pusher. In fact, it combines elements of both.
Unpleasant but hypnotic lyrical meditation on death that was inspired by the suicide in 1994 of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain.
Don't send out the condolences just yet. The movie isn't about the director's death--if anything, it proves that Van Sant is very much alive.
Occasionally sublime in its vivid long-take hypnotics and sonic soundscapes, the slow burn of Last Days can still feel like a punishing art-wank...
Cinematographer Harris Savides manages to make these ... disintegrating environments and souls darkly beautiful. [But] Blake is a messiah ... dying for no one but himself.
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