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Last Days (2005)

Last Days poster
Directed by
Gus Van Sant
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 412 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A musician spends his final days wandering through a large house and the surrounding woods. He encounters friends and strangers but remains disconnected from everyone around him.

slow-burnmelancholicbleakquietlonelydreamlikeunsettlingcontemplative

What happens

Last Days is a 2005 American drama film written, directed, produced and edited by Gus Van Sant. It is a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on Kurt Cobain. It was released to theaters in the United States on July 22, 2005 and was produced by HBO. The film stars Michael Pitt as the character Blake, based on Cobain. Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green and Thadeus A. Thomas also star in the film. This is the first film from Picturehouse, a joint venture between Time Warner's New Line Cinema and HBO Films subsidiaries to release art house, independent, foreign, and documentary films. The film polarized critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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