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Last Days of Disco

 

USA 1998, 114 minutes
Dir. Whit Stillman
Genres: Drama, Comedy / Independent

Topics: Period 1970s, Period 1980s, Rites-of-passage.

 

Aroview: Not so much a nostalgia trip as a literate comedy of manners a la 1980s Manhattan, dissecting the sashays on the social dancefloor among a troupe of acerbic, slightly immature college-grads you might recognise from writer/director Whit Stillman's other work (METROPOLITAN, BARCELONA).

Lending charisma and substance, Chloe Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, both on the cusp of adulthood and quailing before monogamy and yuppie-dom, escape by night into the 'freedoms' of mirrorball-land. Ensuring matters don't become too cerebral, a soundtrack of classic grooves contributes more than simply a sense of time and place.

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