![]() ![]() It's the unflinching look at the flaws in the characters and the time that makes The Last Days of Disco a solid evocation of a unique time in American culture. Most people in their early 20s aren't always fun to be around or half as interesting as they think they are. ![]() The characters themselves aren't even necessarily likable - each flawed and pretentious in their own way - but that's part of what makes the movie so good. What emerges is how disco for them is a place for escape - a place to forget their problems, even if they aren't successful in the attempt. They are neurotic, with precarious employment, suffering setbacks in their personal and professional lives. In the discotheque, one sees both 1970s liberation in the fashions, standout individuals, and subcultures, and the onset of the preppy-yuppie conservative reaction just on the horizon - sexual liberation on one end, the rapid spread of herpes and other venereal diseases on the other.Īmid this backdrop, these characters are struggling to find themselves and their place in the world. Set in 1980 during the last months of a discotheque that will be going out of business soon, the scenes wonderfully evoke the gray area between eras. This is a huge part of why The Last Days of Disco remains entertaining years after its release. The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 film about two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the. Production: A Gramercy release of a Castle Rock Entertainment/Westerly Films presentation. Movies immersed in nostalgia work best when the romanticized past has enough "warts and all" to remind viewers that the past wasn't any better than the present. The Last Days of Disco Reviewed at Todd-AO West, Santa Monica, April 28, 1998. This '90s look back at the '70s still works. In The Last Days of Disco, a funny but frustrating new film by Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona), there is one very obvious clue that his. Over the next several months, through job successes and failures, frayed friendships and reconciliation, and the impending end of the discotheque due to both tax fraud and the rapidly approaching demise of disco as a cultural phenomenon, the characters struggle to find contentment and success in their careers, no matter how elusive both seem to be. But after the manager of the disco, Jimmy's friend Des (Chris Eigeman), kicks Jimmy out of the club at the behest of Des's boss, who doesn't want Jimmy brining clients into the club, Charlotte talks Alice into going home with Tom ( Robert Sean Leonard), someone they knew from college. Alice has designs on Jimmy ( Mackenzie Astin), an ad rep who tries to impress potential clients by bringing them into the club. As they struggle to earn a living on their meager salaries, they go to an exclusive discotheque at night. ![]() I wish Chris Eigeman was also on board considering he and Stillman make a great team, but you can't have it all.It's THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO in 1980s New York City, and Alice ( Chloe Sevigny) and Charlotte ( Kate Beckinsdale) are best friends who work together as readers for a publishing house. Johnson, plus Emma Greenwell, Morfydd Clark, Jemma Redgrave, James Fleet, Tom Bennett and Justin Edwards. The cast also includes Xavier Samuel ( Fury) as the object of Lady Susan’s affections, Stephen Fry as Alicia's long-suffering husband Mr. Beckinsale will play Lady Susan while Sevigny is set to play Lady Susan’s friend and confidante Alicia (Sevigny). The Last Days of Disco shows a very strange set of relationships that unfortunately are true to life since a lot of times we tend to make friends with. While word on The Cosmopolitans remains quiet, The Playlist reports that Love and Friendship is moving forward, and it will reunite Stillman with his The Last Days of Disco stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny. The story is set in the 1790s and revolves around Lady Susan Vernon, a widow who is trying to lay low at her in-laws in order to avoid rumor-mongering, and ends up trying to find a husband for herself and her daughter. He explained the title change was because of "a very insignificant juvenile story she wrote and putting it on something significant she wrote." The film follows Alice Kinnon (Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Beckinsale), two young women in the early 1980s who are Hampshire College graduates and work in. Stillman said that in addition to working on the Amazon TV series The Cosmopolitans, he was also planning to direct Love and Friendship, which is based on the Jane Austen novella, Lady Susan. Last September, Steve spoke with Metropolian director Whit Stillman about his upcoming projects.
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