LAST DAYS

Year: 2005
USA: Picturehouse
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Green, Nicole Vicius, Ricky Jay, Ryan Orion, Harmony Korine, The Hermitt, Kim Gordon, Adam Friberg, Andy Friberg, Thadeus A Thomas, Chip Marks, Kurt Loder, Michael Azzerad, Chris Monlux, Jack Gibson, Gus Van Sant, Dawnn Pavlonnis
Director: Gus Van Sant
Country: USA
USA & UK: 97 mins
USA Rated: R for language and some sexual content
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language
USA Release Date: 22 July 2005 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 2 September 2005


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Synopsis

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. Michael Pitt (THE DREAMERS, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH) stars as Blake, an introspective artist whose success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors. LAST DAYS follows Blake through a handful of hours he spends in and near his wooded home, a fugitive from his own life.

Expanding on the elliptical style forged in his previous two 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.

Although this film is inspired by the last days of Kurt Cobain, it is a work of fiction and the characters and events portrayed in the film are also fictional. It was filmed on location in Garrison, New York.

In memory of Kurt Cobain 1967 - 1994.