Last Days [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Customer Reviews:

be patient.......2006-08-22

patience is the key to getting the most from this haunting, fiction based tale of the death of an icon. this is not an easy film to watch or enjoy, though see it through to the end and it's likely you'll be playing this film in your head again and again for a long time afterwards.
we follow blake, a spaced out rockstar through his depressing loneliness as he wanders around the grounds of his house for much of the film, wondering how could anyone get themselves in such a position. but it's this aspect from where the character gains his sympathy. this is an ordinary person so torn and chewed up by the pressures of fame and fortune, who spends his final few days trying to escape what he has become, and not helped by the array of hangers on he tries hard not to share his life with. michael pitt's performance is mesmerising as blake, and the stars' interview in the special features sums up the film. "this is not a film about kurt cobain, it is a film for kurt cobain."

BANALITY IS THE NEW BLACK.......2006-04-16

Pretty Vacuous film like the Rock Star's life it portrays.
Based on The Last days of Kurt Cobain there seems to be little point to this film at all. Or is that the point itself. See for yourselves. If it was meant to provoke some sympathy for Cobain's suicide then this film works cos I felt like joining him till I realised I had a life.

Worth sticking with.......2005-11-01

Last Days can be hard work – walkouts aplenty when I was saw it – but there are rewards for those prepared to relax into this portrait of a world that’s stopped. It’s the world of an apparently mad rock star who’s bored with it all and so contemptuous of the hangers-on that surround him, he speaks (mumbles) only to himself.

Average customer rating:

Complex emotions on the French coast.

The Last Day [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Nicole Garcia , Gaspard Ulliel , Mélanie Laurent , Bruno Todeschini , and Alysson Paradis
Director: Rodolphe Marconi
Manufacturer: Strand Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000BB18WC
Release Date: 2005-12-13

Customer Reviews:

Complex emotions on the French coast........2007-08-12

A small French family drama that has tragic consequences. Gaspard Ulliel plays nineteen-year-old Simon who travels from Paris where he attends art college on the overnight train to his family's holiday home on the west coast of France. On the journey he is joined by a young girl, who looks uncannily like Simon and of whom the parents take to be his girlfriend.

But Simon's eyes seem more focussed on the young local lighthouse-keeper, Matthew, and an unspoken competition for Matthew's attention builds up between Simon and the girl. In the background, Simon's mother and father are going through a bad patch, with the mother reliving a former relationship with an old flame from twenty years previously. Both of these strands produce a shocking conclusion in the film's final shot.

The story is well-acted and realistically shot. My only complaint is that the longueurs are only too real, with lots of time spent with very little taking place, but I guess this slowly builds up the tension. Simon himself is undemonstrative, so it is difficult sometimes to know exactly what he is thinking, but the benefit is that this makes the ending so shockingly unexpected.

This is not a 'gay' film as such, and can be viewed more as a family drama, involving young people trying to come to terms with their feelings.

A good film.

Customer Reviews:

Disapointing!.......2005-11-13

Not worth seeing. The setting of the film mixing elements of South Africa two centuries ago and of the 60's in a same frame of time was interesting but the rest of the movie is insipide.

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