Last Days

[DudeAsInCool]

Last Days

Written and directed by Gus Van Sant

KURTAIN CALL: A decade after his death, a new movie imagines the final days of Nirvana's elusive frontman

Last Days, the brilliant concluding chapter in the death trilogy that inspired Gus Van Sant's artistic rebirth, wafts through the final 48 or so hours of a Kurt Cobain–like rock star. Nirvana fans, be forewarned: This sensuously entropic elegy is the most elemental and circumscribed of biopics. It sheds no new light on a generation's defining pop-cultural tombstone (biographer Charles R. Cross's pieced-together account of Cobain's uneventful final week is broadly similar) and doesn't come close to illustrating In Utero's working title, I Hate Myself and I Want to Die. But in place of psychological clarity, Last Daysaffords a woozy existential coherence. Cobain for one would have appreciated its contradictions. Not exactly a radio-friendly unit shifter, Last Days is a biography without a story, a sustained monologue that can barely be heard, an interior portrait that denies access to inner life.

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0529,lim1,66013,20.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Another pov on the Cannes Film Festival Winner from music critic Robert Christgau:

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0528,fchr...u,65779,20.html

[method77]

I'd like to see this...