Last Days

REVIEW: LAST DAYS

(HBO/Picturehouse) Directed by Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant's latest follows rock star Blake (Michael Pitt) as he spends the waning hours of his life in an eerie sort of purgatory, stalking around his house with a shotgun wearing a dress and hunter's cap, watching Boys II Men videos, and greeting door-to-door salesmen. While the credits state that the film only draws inspiration from the details surrounding Kurt Cobain's suicide, it does manage to evoke a lot of the pathos, alienation, and humor that made the late Nirvana front man such a cultural force--and without relying on a lot of dialogue, music, or loaded druggie sequences to bare the load.

COPYRIGHT 2005 Brant Publications, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning