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7 de ago. de 2017 · A quiet, meditative film, it’s the second part of Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy” and a study of mental isolation and depression. Like Cobain, the stumbling, mumbling Blake spends his last few days hiding out in his mansion after running away from rehab, avoiding concerned calls from business partners and family, and doing drugs.
I then apply this frame of reference to a new understanding of Gus Van Sant’s cinema of walking composed by the so-called death trilogy of Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003) and Last Days (2005) plus Paranoid Park (2007).
Speaking of pleasure: if you are looking for a modicum of narrative satisfaction Last Days will—by design—deny it. There is no story. The tragic tabloid elements that inspired the film are fairly well known, but Van Sant cannily chose a sharply oblique angle: the key narrative crux—Cobain’s will-to-death decision—is something that occurs prior to anything seen onscreen.
13 de jul. de 2018 · 4. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Van Sant’s on-the-road romance drama stands as one of his best films, and the first to showcase a mature, semi-experimental style (watch out for the inspired sex ...
10 de ago. de 2018 · 8. Psycho (1998) Contrarians consider Van Sant’s version of Psycho to be “realer” than the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock hit film.While they are wrong or maybe just tedious, ditto the conventional ...
Gus Van Sant, né le 24 juillet 1952 à Louisville ( Kentucky ), est un réalisateur, scénariste, producteur, monteur, photographe et musicien américain. Il a longtemps vécu à Portland dans l' Oregon, ville qui sert de cadre à nombre de ses films. Après des débuts comme cinéaste indépendant avec notamment le film My Own Private Idaho ...
24 de feb. de 2016 · In other words, he uses silence, like he did with “Gerry” and “Elephant”, the other films of the Death Trilogy. 7. Milk (2008) Based on the life of the politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, this is a biopic that put a Gus Van Sant film again on Oscar trail (the first that happened was in 1998 with “Good Will Hunting”).
