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Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees, Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house, an elegant, if neglected, stone mansion. Many people are looking for Blake--his friends, his managers and record label, even a private detective--but he does not want to be found. In the haze of his final hours, Blake will spend most his time by himself. He avoids the people who are living in ...
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his house, who approach him only when they want something, be it money or help with a song. He hides from one concerned friend and turns away another. He visits politely with a stranger from the Yellow Pages sales department, and he ducks into an underground rock club. He wanders through the woods and he plays a new song, one last rock and roll blowout. Finally, alone in the greenhouse, Blake will look and listen--and seek release.
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Blake (Michael Pitt) is een introverte muzikant wiens plotse succes ook zijn ondergang dreigt te worden. Hij voelt zich hoe langer hoe eenzamer en isoleert zich steeds meer van de buitenwereld. Hij brengt zijn dagen al dolend rond in de omliggende bossen en mediterend in een elegant maar vervallen landhuis. Het is een periode van innerlijke onrust en gestoord bewustzijn, afgewisseld met enkele zeldzame uitbarstingen van rock 'n roll. Iedereen lijkt wel hopeloos op zoek te zijn naar Blake - zijn zogenaamde vrienden, zijn manager, zijn platenlabel, zelfs een privé-detective - maar Blake vermijdt elk contact. Hij he...
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eft vooral nood om alleen te zijn en ontwijkt zelfs de enkele vrienden in zijn huis die hem alleen benaderen wanneer ze iets nodig hebben: geld of raad bij het maken van een song. Tenslotte trekt hij zich terug in het tuinhuis en zoekt er naar een uitweg.
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Inspired by the true story of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the popular Seattle-based rock band Nirvana who committed suicide in 1994, director Gus Van Sant (ELEPHANT) presents this meditative journey through the last days in the life of fictional musician Blake (Michael Pitt). In a bewildered state of drug withdrawal, Blake stumbles through deep woods groaning and mumbling quietly. His words are only occasionally audible, and even less occasionally coherent. Thus, the focus is on Blake's tortured, slow-motion movements and his tangle of chin-length blond hair, which hangs like a mask over his face. Reaching a ...
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clearing, Blake enters a dilapidated mansion where he lives with four similarly confused young rockers. A string of foggy events follows in partially chronological order. Scenes overlap, allowing for minor details to be added later. This style hints at the insignificance of time--and of everything--from Blake's perspective.
Avoiding human contact, taking long walks, playing music, and hiding in the greenhouse, Blake nears his inevitable end. He digs up a parcel from the backyard, smokes a cigarette and painstakingly pours a bowl of Cocoa Krispies, changes into a black evening gown and grabs a rifle, answers the phone and says nothing when a voice asks him about an upcoming tour. Blake then descends into a bizarre, barely conscious state during which people come and go from the house. But none of it seems to register, as he is already lost. LAST DAYS finds melancholic beauty in green trees reflecting in window panes, and the sound of rippling lake water echoing the ambient noise in Blake's head; and Pitt shows chameleon expertise in his mutely charismatic depiction of the unreachable Blake, whose resemblance to Cobain is both haunting and magical.
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Here's a rather, um, life-affirming little short by " Where the Wild Things Are " helmer Spike Jonze , in which the skeleton of Macbeth tears himself off the cover of his own book to jump the bones (literally) of Mina Harker on the cover of "Dracula." Complications ensue, Herman Melville is involved. We guarantee you've never quite seen a short film like this, which is animated entirely using 2-D handcrafted felt puppets designed by Olympia Le-Tan, who also wrote the script. Olympia has specialized in making book cover reproductions using this style. Shot at France's Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the initial live-action segment features her father, Pierre Le-Tan whom movie fans may recognize as the illustrator for the covers of several Whit Stillman DVDs on the Criterion Collection, such as " Metropolitan " and " Last Days of Disco." Jonze himself voices Macbeth, and French singer Soko lends her voice to Harker as well as
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