Agathe Rousselle and Sion Goronwy in Last Days at the Royal Opera House
(Picture: Camilla Greenwell)Opera and film have flirted with each other since the earliest days of cinema but the traffic has mostly been from opera house to screen. Based on Gus van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name, Oliver Leith’s Last Days travels in the other direction.
Van Sant admitted that he’d been “inspired” by the last days of Kurt Cobain, godfather of grunge, who committed suicide in 1994. The film, though, ended with a disclaimer: “It is a work of fiction and the characters and events portrayed in the film are also fictional”.
