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Last Days

2005

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Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 59 Ratings

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Fine Line Features | Release Date: July 22, 2005 | R

Starring: Asia Argento, Lukas Haas, Michael Pitt

Summary: Last Days is filmmaker Gus Van Sant's fictional meditation on the inner turmoil that engulfs a brilliant, but troubled musician in the final hours of his life. (Picturehouse)

Director: Gus Van Sant

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Critic Reviews

100

Village Voice

Dennis Lim

The brilliant concluding chapter in the death trilogy that inspired Gus Van Sant's artistic rebirth. Read full review

90

Newsweek

David Ansen

A hauntingly beautiful tone poem. Read full review

88

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Rick Groen

The result is a movie that seems not quite real and yet never false but somehow partakes of both -- rather like the prospect of death. Read full review

70

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Using long takes, largely improvised dialogue and an increasingly out-of-joint time frame, Van Sant chronicles the final hours of fictional but Cobain-like rock star Blake. Read full review

63

Premiere Aaron Hillis

Van Sant has mastered this kind of driftingly contemplative imagery and his layered soundscapes would make Sonic Youth proud (of course, Kim Gordon makes an appearance), but the introduction of other characters fracture the film's greatest asset, its lonely first-person atmosphere. Read full review

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Variety

Leslie Felperin

Result is dead-on depiction of the hedonistic rock lifestyle, punctuated by sequences of haunting beauty but also quasi-religious imagery that borders on tacky. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle

Mick LaSalle

In trouble from its first minutes. Read full review

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Nico

Jan 30, 2007

People who use the words chick, crap or dude (in any context) should be sent to a gas chamber. Thank you.

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JenniferI.

Sep 16, 2005

Not only is this movie genius I am a big kurt cobain fan and I think it explained what he went through and I loved every minute of it.

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MattV.

Dec 28, 2005

Anyone who doesnt think this movie is great is clearly a moron. It is Art. It is a concept of what thelast days might have been like. If you shop at the GAP or enjoy Vin Disel Movies dont see this. You wont get it and you never will. All those who gave poor reviews... please do us all a Anyone who doesnt think this movie is great is clearly a moron. It is Art. It is a concept of what thelast days might have been like. If you shop at the GAP or enjoy Vin Disel Movies dont see this. You wont get it and you never will. All those who gave poor reviews... please do us all a favor and go away. This is not my opinion this is artistic fact.… Expand

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ErikL.

Aug 20, 2006

This film is way too loosely constructed and it is pretentious to overlook the fact that it does little to captivate the audience. Michael Pitt's performance mostly consists in grunts and moans and is nothing to be proud of. The religious references throughout are puzzling and it feels This film is way too loosely constructed and it is pretentious to overlook the fact that it does little to captivate the audience. Michael Pitt's performance mostly consists in grunts and moans and is nothing to be proud of. The religious references throughout are puzzling and it feels like Van Sant is trying to make the average viewer see this as a film about a rockstar evading salvation until his untimely death. Formally speaking, this is not a movie about Cobain, and should not be seen as such. It is a fictional account of the life of an artist similar to Cobain, and as such is not biographically accurate. From the formalist perspective we also have no evidence that he is a junkie. These external interpretations detract from the essential lack of any true cohesion, since the entire film could be summed up in seven minutes. It is another silly attempt by Van Sant to create a film about an event without researching the event; in the nineties his work was excellent but lately he has been trying way too hard to appeal to the sycophantic art critic who actually does not have much of an aesthetic sense. The only redeeming features are Harmony Korine's chat about D&D with Jerry Garcia and when Blake (not Kurt) falls off the stretcher. I can understand people feeling a certain need to praise a film about Nirvana but this isn't what Van Sant set out to do. It is a loosely-constructed showcase of cinematography accompanied Moore and Westerkamp's excellent soundscape, but the plot itself is weak and boring. There are better things to do than to waste 97 minutes on this film.… Expand

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Missy

Dec 15, 2005

This film is horrible. I was a huge Nirvana fan in 90's. I have all of Kurt's records, read all of the biographies and saw the interviews. This film has nothing to do with Kurt. It is a very slow, boring, artsy film. Barely no dialogue and zero plot. After an hour of excruciating This film is horrible. I was a huge Nirvana fan in 90's. I have all of Kurt's records, read all of the biographies and saw the interviews. This film has nothing to do with Kurt. It is a very slow, boring, artsy film. Barely no dialogue and zero plot. After an hour of excruciating pain, I had to turn it off.… Expand

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Tim

Sep 9, 2005

Not a single redeeming feature. Oh wait, there's one - it ended.

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BrockF.

Nov 28, 2006

Terrible. Perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen, and I've seen "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation."

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