[Cannes Dispatch by Eugene Hernandez, Photo by Brian Brooks]

In Gus Van Sant's "Last Days", which had its press screening this morning ahead of tonight's premiere, Michael Pitt stars as Blake, a musician who looks and lives a lot like Kurt Cobain. At today's press conference I asked Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth about a scene in the movie in which she urges Blake to seek help to avoid becoming a rock music statistic.

"It was a situaton of this psychosis where Kurt was alienated from what he thought he wanted and was entrapped by it," she explained, "Basically it was just kind of...in a sense I sort of felt like the character knew what would happen. But yet you want to treat somebody as an adult -- obviously, you can ony protect them so much." She added, "Everyone had their own idea or thoughts about who Kurt was or what happend. I think part of the idea of the film is that you can never really know somebody, and the disparity between image and what goes on with a person day to day."