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Last Days

2005

Gus Van Sant

Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green ...

5.0

6,499

Drama An introspective musician who is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations, and a mounting feeling of isolation lives his final hours.

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"One of this year's indisputably great films"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A 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."	NEG
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"It's an unexpected and delicate approach to the Cobain story (...) But Van Sant doesn't seem to have much on his mind"	NEU
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Last Days' seems to understand the void represented by Cobain’s life and the emptiness his death left behind, and as such it’s appropriate that the film seems to exist and operate from inside a vacuum (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Steve O'Hagan Empire	"A beguiling work of some beauty, this is a further move into a world of hypnotic, observational cinema for Van Sant. But in the end, the detached style has the power to alienate as much as to enthral (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's brave of Van Sant to allow his characters to simply wander off, in John Webster's words, 'to study a long silence' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"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"	NEU

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