Last Days (US Version) DVD Region 1

Inspired by the true story of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the popular Seattle-based rock band Nirvana who committed suicide in 1994, director Gus Van Sant (ELEPHANT) presents this meditative journey through the last days in the life of fictional musician Blake (Michael Pitt). In a bewildered state of drug withdrawal, Blake stumbles through deep woods groaning and mumbling quietly. His words are only occasionally audible, and even less occasionally coherent. Thus, the focus is on Blake's tortured, slow-motion movements and his tangle of chin-length blond hair, which hangs like a mask over his face. Reaching a clearing, Blake enters a dilapidated mansion where he lives with four similarly confused young rockers. A string of foggy events follows in partially chronological order. Scenes overlap, allowing for minor details to be added later. This style hints at the insignificance of time--and of everything--from Blake's perspective. Avoiding human contact, taking long walks, playing music, and hiding in the greenhouse, Blake nears his inevitable end. He digs up a parcel from the backyard, smokes a cigarette and painstakingly pours a bowl of Cocoa Krispies, changes into a black evening gown and grabs a rifle, answers the phone and says nothing when a voice asks him about an upcoming tour. Blake then descends into a bizarre, barely conscious state during which people come and go from the house. But none of it seems to register, as he is already lost. LAST DAYS finds melancholic beauty in green trees reflecting in window panes, and the sound of rippling lake water echoing the ambient noise in Blake's head; and Pitt shows chameleon expertise in his mutely charismatic depiction of the unreachable Blake, whose resemblance to Cobain is both haunting and magical.

"In LAST DAYS, the writer-director Gus Van Sant draws us into the illusion that we're seeing the druggy, blithering, zoned-out final days of a rock star very much like -- no, exactly like -- Kurt Cobain." - Owen, Glieberman (Film critic), Entertainment Weekly, 07/29/2005

"[A] mesmerizing dream of a film....One of this year's indisputably great films." - Manohla, Dargis (Film Critic), New York Times, 07/22/2005

"[U]ndeniably hypnotic..." - Peter, Travers (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 08/11/2005

"LAST DAYS is a subversive piece of filmmaking....It'll stick in your head for a long while to come. Which is the point." - Michael, Bonner (Uncut Critic), Uncut, 09/01/2005

"[C]inematographer Harris Savides is behind the camera, finding beautiful still-life tableaux in Blake's crumbling mansion." - Stephen, Dalton (Uncut Critic), Sight and Sound, 09/01/2005

"Pitt bears a spooky resemblance to Cobain and captures some of his intense originality in demeanor....[The film] has a hypnotic quality." - Claudia, Puig (USA TODAY CRITIC), USA Today, 07/22/2005

"Occasionally sublime in its vivid long-take hypnotics and sonic soundscapes." - Aaron, Hillis (Premiere Critic), Premiere, 11/01/2005

Ranked #6 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "A bleak but brilliant study of the isolating nature of fame." - Uncut Staff (Uncut Film Critic), Uncut, 01/01/2006

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Product Title:	Last Days (US Version) Last Days (US Version) Last Days (US Version) Last Days (US Version) Last Days (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Kirsten Dunst (Actor) | Michael Pitt (Actor) | Goldie Hawn (Actor) | Casey Affleck | Tori Spelling 姬斯頓登斯 (Actor) | Michael Pitt (Actor) | Goldie Hawn (Actor) | 卡西艾佛力 | Tori Spelling 姬斯顿登斯 (Actor) | Michael Pitt (Actor) | Goldie Hawn (Actor) | 卡西艾佛力 | Tori Spelling キルスティン・ダンスト (Actor) | マイケル・ピット (Actor) | Goldie Hawn (Actor) | ケイシー・アフレック | Tori Spelling 크리스틴 던스트 (Actor) | Michael Pitt (Actor) | Goldie Hawn (Actor) | Casey Affleck | Tori Spelling
Director:	Barbara Hall Barbara Hall Barbara Hall Ｂａｒｂａｒａ Ｈａｌｌ Barbara Hall
Producer:	Anna Boden Anna Boden Anna Boden Anna Boden Anna Boden
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Release Date:	2005-10-25
UPC Code:	026359294129
Language:	English
Country of Origin:	United States
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Warner Home Video
Package Weight:	99 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004402372

Director: Gus Van Sant

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