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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
Stillman's third and most indulgent installment of his autobiographical trilogy ... smirks its way through the early '80s disco heyday.
Stillman is a talented filmmaker who knows how to avoid most cinematic cliches, and is eager to show human nature in all its amusing weakness, but he seems to be enchanted with some pretty wretched people.
Even the most promising characters turn out to be shallow and often hateful, their stories meander interminably.
With a total of three films under his belt in eight years, Stillman is already self-referential.
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.
Trouble is, the dancing is usually more interesting than the pretentious things these characters have to say.
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.
In its last hour, the picture becomes more clumsy and tiresome, but the stray laugh and the disco sound keep it pulsing.
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