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Actor puts Sundance on hold, gets in touch with his inner guitar animal. Reviewed By Jonah Weiner Pagoda In the film Last Days, Michael Pitt played a suicide-bound rocker clearly modeled on Kurt Cobain. With Pagoda, the 25-year-old actor is again flying the flannel. His look — dirty jeans, destroyed pocket tees, blond shag — is as note-perfect as his voice, which sneers and wails in a manner most Kurt, and his guitar, mean and off-kilter, follows suit. Pitt radiates his own haunting charisma, though, veering between ambivalent pinings (“I don’t want to see you, I just need you near”), icky nursery rhymes (“Little fetus/Waiting to meet us”) and masochistic pleas (“Kiss me like a knife”). But unlike Cobain, he’s more interested in creepy ambience and structural experiments than quiet-loud explosions. In interviews, Pitt stresses that he’s not just another actor slumming in a band. He needn’t bother: Even if this is an act, it’s a perfectly good one.
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