The Last Days of Disco
The film follows two young girl who attempt to escape terrible apartment and boring job to the most famous dance club. They find love and themselves in music and dancing.
19 December 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 December 1972, Westport, Connecticut, USA
June 21, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA
26 June 1959, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1 March 1965, Denver, Colorado, USA
18 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
August 03, 2016
Quirky, acerbic, romantic comedy set in Manhattan during the early 1980s.
April 23, 2012
If it had been Stillman's swan song, a director could hardly hope to be prouder of such a strong exit.
January 01, 2000
The combination of sharply-realized dialogue and infectiously energetic dance sequences keeps The Last Days of Disco from losing steam.
October 13, 2009
Stilillman pulls off a unique balancing act of conveying the specificities of the cultural milieu but also maintaining a sense of universality that keeps the film from being solely about its time and place
January 01, 2000
[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire.
January 01, 2000
In its last hour, the picture becomes more clumsy and tiresome, but the stray laugh and the disco sound keep it pulsing.
January 01, 2000
If this film ... doesn't fully rise to the lovely vibrancy of Barcelona, it still extends the witty, quizzical style of Stillman's social comedies onto inviting new terrain.
January 01, 2000
The pleasures in The Last Days of Disco come when the friends rant and quarrel and sulk and circle each other with an unstable mixture of need and resentment.
September 04, 2012
Not only are the characters in The Last Days of Disco embarrassingly earnest about their love for spectacular nightclubs and thumping dance music, but they're also completely transparent about their desires, even when they think they're being clever.
August 25, 2009
The focus of The Last Days of Disco is a psychologically authentic and painfully parasitic female relationship.
February 14, 2001
Sharp-eyed and charming.
January 29, 2010
Stillman skips the snark in favor of a sincere appreciation of his slightly lost characters.
