The Last Days of Disco is a dramedy that was loosely based on the events of the nightclubs in Manhattan - including Studio 54 - during the disco scene of New York City during the early 80's.It stars Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale together with Chris Eigeman,Mackenzie Astin,Tara Subkoff,Robert Sean Leonard,Matt Keeslar and Jennifer Beals.The story centers on Alice Kinnon and Charlotte Pingress,two young Manhattan professionals fresh out of college who work in a New York publishing house.They frequent a local disco house together in search of music,dance and romance.Both have different personalities with Alice being intelligent,quiet and soft-spoken while Charlotte being outgoing,conceited and giving Alice constant advice.The film follow the events that both women experiences especially during the last days of the disco scene.This is definitely a great movie about the disco era.It was a sincere and earnest depiction of the scene as well as that of friendship between two strikingly different women.Definitely,well- done with great dialogue and outstanding performances from Sevigny and Beckinsale.Also,worth mentioning is the outstanding soundtrack particularly I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross.It definitely is one entertaining movie and one would definitely become curious of the disco scene especially the young generation watching this movie.

You don't need to have lived through the 1970's to enjoy this film, and unlike a lot of the other Disco-era films, this picture follows a group of working professionals who not only use Disco as an escape from their mundane lives, but also as a mask to hide behind. The film isn't as much about the end of a genre of music as it is the end of a generations youth. The final sequence of the film depicts our ensemble coming to the realization that they're old because they've officially lived through a popular-art movement.Overall, the comedic touch of the film stems from it's straight faced dry sense of humor that has become a staple of Whit Stillman's comedy brand. Chris Eigeman gives a fantastic performance, and Kate Beckinsale is that best friend that you love to hate.Overall this is a most see and a wonderful film!

I do not mean it as an aesthetic judgement, just a sort of an essay in translating in logical terms the hard to pin down effect it had on me, for all the shallow characters on display, it is affectively rich.It is a film difficult and at the same time deceptively simple to summarize - the only way I feel I can do it is pin down the tone as I see it: Chloe Sevigny plays Alice who is not in Wonderland or Oz (even if the occasional characters appear in Discoland) but actually seems more like Voltaire's Candide, candid even when confronted with her "best friend"'s common, constant, bitchy smugness, who in fact turns into some kind of likable caricature in the end, likable that is when you think she is some kind of irony's scapegoat: she simply HAS to end up in TV, that is the crippled purgatory she deserves.Along with Alice, Josh (Matt Keeslar) has his Candide moment in the end, as outsider spokesman for the disco era: I do not think Stillman is ironic here - and the reason why is that in the comedy of human flaws Stillman wants to present us, we get our ironic portion of that in Chekhovian levity, so I do not think that anyone would end up something in a flat note.The film ends in a lively manner that is also nostalgic and shorthand, that is affectionately shorthand as, one supposes, all Stillman's films are. How can it be otherwise? Here he offers us - could we call it a vision? - Candide (in his simple, clear morality) in a Chekhovian play keeping time in Bret Easton Ellis' era. It can't equate into more than zero, but it warps itself out unbalancing that 80's nothing, proving in a blink of an eye the famous less is more.

I do not believe anyone could make a film more boring than "The Last Days of Disco" if they had a thousand attempts. This pic works better than a sedative to numb the senses.If you manage to stay awake for the first hour and a half, you may then be treated to a few clever lines and original diatribes. Most of the movie is horribly contrived however.What really kills the film is the hopelessly uninteresting characters. The audience will quickly forget who was who, if they ever bother to figure it out. A terrible excuse for a disco flick.Friday, November 27, 1998 - Astor Theatre StKilda