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The Last Days of Disco

1998 Directed by Whit Stillman

History is made at night.

Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.

Chloë Sevigny Kate Beckinsale Chris Eigeman Mackenzie Astin Matt Keeslar Robert Sean Leonard Jennifer Beals Matt Ross Tara Subkoff Burr Steers David Thornton Michael Weatherly

Alternative Titles

Los últimos días del disco, Les derniers jours du disco, Последние дни диско, Os últimos Embalos da Disco

comedy drama romance

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Popular reviews

Review by matt lynch ★★★★½

"There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck."
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 5

pretty realistic post-grad movie except for the part where they all have jobs and enough disposable income to disco in NYC every night
Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★★ 1

“I consider you a person of some integrity—except, you know, in your relations with women.” That must be the most important line spoken in any Stillman film pinpointing the many ways his movies marry sociological study, comedy of manners and a rather clear moral position. If The Last Days of Disco is Stillman’s masterpiece is because it’s the one that most clear articulates the ways one witness unaware our slow decay towards barbarism, the idea that ultimate links all his four historical films. One stumbles upward, while the world around it just awkwardly disappears. It is as beautiful elegiac as it is witty because Stillman sincere belief that “the yuppie scum” deserves its elegy too. There’s plenty of behavior beauties…
Review by iana ★★★★

“unemployed is not who i am. i’m a fully employed person who just happens not to have a job right now” wow i feel attacked
Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★ 2

Discussed on the podcast with Calum Marsh, as well as the film's novelization written by Stillman (which is totally awesome—It's written from the perspective of Jimmy in 1999, after the film is released in his world, so it's extremely self-reflexive). I feel like I want to integrate every line of dialogue into my own life. "The way I see it, Brutus was a good friend to Caesar."
Also what the hell happened Kate Beckinsale? Someone give Noah Baumbach her phone number, stat.
Review by Melissa Tamminga ★★★★ 7

"'Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like *this* but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco . Those who didn't understand will never understand: disco was much more, and much better, than all that. Disco was too great, and too much fun, to…

Recent reviews

Review by Pedro Barragan ★★★★★

Those titles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWCNsfGUzE
Review by trinity ★★★★★

yup yup!!!!!! bourgeoisie excellence!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review by Fábio Rosa

tenho nojo supremo de gnt vergonha de ta vivo. a ambiguidade do coringa perto desse ficou até boa. filme pra foolcutianos ze droguinhas e incels. whit stillman meu melhor enemigo. "book this clown"
Review by paul_quixote ★★★

Quite funny. Stupid plot. Doesn't quite hit the sweet spot for me that I like in a work that satirizes a community, where you get that feeling the love for the community is only matched by the desire to savagely mock it. This movie is mostly lovey-dovey to the yuppies it portrays. Not a bad thing, but lacks the edge I like. The commentary related to sex comes the closest to striking the right balance, I feel.
Review by Cail Borg ★★★½

The music is terrible, the yuppy scum are insufferable, and I love it.
Review by Alex Daboub ★★★★

I wish whit stillman would make more movies
Review by wine. ★★★★★ 2

This movie is just so GOOD, ok? Chloe Sevigny is amazing as always, Kate Beckinsale is cold and hilarious, and of course the legend Whit Stillman did a great job of writing and directing this thing! Stillman’s too-smart-to-be-true dialogue is everything Stupid Sorkin WISHES he could write! And the music fuckin rules (disco rocks!) Anyway great movie!!
Review by kmeaston ★★★

Nobody working today writes crisper, wittier, WASPier banter than Whit Stillman. That said, that's all there is here; dialogues nested within dialogues reacting to dialogues following dialogues.
Also, I have a personal problem with any disco-centric film that is indeed so WASPy. Ultimately, I don't care about the white straight experience of disco, as these people are tourists.
Review by MHORKY ★★★★

Whit Stillman understands socialites better than anyone. Sevigny and Beckinsale are truly revelatory in this.