In 2005, Van Sant released "Last Days", the final component of what he refers to as his "Death Trilogy", (the other parts being "Gerry" and "Elephant"). It is a fictionalized account of what happened to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in the days leading up to his death. In 2006, Van Sant began work on "Paranoid Park" based on the book by Blake Nelson, about a skateboarding teenager who accidentally causes someone's death. The film was released in Europe in February 2008. He also directed the "Le Marais" segment of the omnibus film "Paris, je t'aime".