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| Last Days |
Michael Pitt (
The Dreamers,
Delirious) cuts a hauntingly familiar figure in Van Sant's meditation - dedicated to Kurt Cobain - on the final days in the life of a famed musician retreating from the clamour of the world and its myriad, insistent demands.
"Success is subjective", a kindly
Yellow Pages rep tells Blake (Pitt), before inviting him to consider how a directory listing may best serve his "business needs". Blake, however, prefers to wander the woods on his sprawling estate, build himself a campfire and ironically sing
Home on the Range to no one in particular.
"An opaque masterpiece" Dennis Lim,
The Village Voice
