Stilillman pulls off a unique balancing act of conveying the specificities of the cultural milieu but also maintaining a sense of universality that keeps the film from being solely about its time and place
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:32
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The third in Whit Stillman's excellent trio of talkative yet thought-provoking odes to days gone by. This installment is set in the Manhattan of the early 80's (chronologically between... The third in Whit Stillman's excellent trio of talkative yet thought-provoking odes to days gone by. This installment is set in the Manhattan of the early 80's (chronologically between "Metropolitan" and "Barcelona") as the hedonistic disco era is on the wane and the money-grubbing self-absorbed era of junk bonds and MTV is on the rise. Two conservative recent Hampshire College graduates slave away as editorial assistants by day and vampy party-goers by night. Witty thoughtful banter moves this film along without the need for an oppressive disco soundtrack or gratuitous drug usage that seem to permeate films of the timeframe. [More]
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Robert Sean Leonard
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Robert Sean Leonard
Director: Whit Stillman
Director: Whit Stillman
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Reviews for The Last Days of Disco
The single finest moment in The Last Days of Disco comes at the end, during the credits... The scene is alive and exciting, and I wish there were more of that in the movie.
The ambience is wrong, failing to convey the passion, the erotic heat, and the decadence that characterized discos as the new temples; at the end, we get the strange feeling that the characters too never understood the meaning of disco to their lives.
A squawky, self-satisfied bore that isn't likely to get anyone's toes tapping.
Mr. Stillman more or less saves the movie with Josh, a sweet, muddled guy who deserves better friends than he has in this movie.
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