Les derniers jours du disco

Titre original : The Last Days of Disco

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Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny in Les derniers jours du disco (1998)

L'histoire de deux éditrices de livres de Manhattan fraîchement sorties de l'université, trouvant l'amour et se découvrant elles-mêmes au cours de soirées dans la discothèque locale.L'histoire de deux éditrices de livres de Manhattan fraîchement sorties de l'université, trouvant l'amour et se découvrant elles-mêmes au cours de soirées dans la discothèque locale.L'histoire de deux éditrices de livres de Manhattan fraîchement sorties de l'université, trouvant l'amour et se découvrant elles-mêmes au cours de soirées dans la discothèque locale.

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6,7/10

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Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
The disco seen in the movie was actually an old picture theater being renovated in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Gaffes
Early in the movie, boxes of glassware in the back of the club have large modern barcodes. An hour into the movie the boxes are shown again, with the barcodes taped over.

Citations
Josh Neff: 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*
[strikes disco pose]
Josh Neff: , 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 be gone forever! It's got to come back someday. I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.
[Des, Charlotte, Dan, and Van stare at Josh like he's crazy]
Josh Neff: ...Sorry, I've got a job interview this afternoon and I was just trying to get revved up, but... most of what I said, I, um... believe.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Truman Show/The Last Days of Disco/A Perfect Murder/The Opposite of Sex/Hope Floats (1998)

Bandes originales
Doctor's Orders
Written by Geoff Stephens, Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook
Performed by Carol Douglas
Courtesy of Unidisc Music, Inc.
By Arrangement with Celebrity Licensing Inc.

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Clever dialogue but lack of plot may frustrate some people

In the early 80's a group of friends interact around a Manhattan disco, desperate to climb the local social ladder. With an investigation in the disco's financial dealings and the end of disco approaching the friends attempt to carry on as normal.

Director Whit Stillman tends to go for comedies that look inward and have strong comedic dialogue that follow social observations and comment on different cultures and periods. However plot is never one of his major concerns and here is no different. The story here is less important that the period of disco which is the real focus. This may be a bit frustrating to some as the story doesn't seeming to have any one direction. However the characters and the dialogue will generally hold the interest sufficiently. Some of the script is a bit weak and the characters occasionally are a bit too unsympathetic but for the majority the sharp script compliments the characters.

The performances are good throughout - these socialites are not people I'd ever like to meet but they are funny from a distance. There is much to like here if you like this type of humour. But the story is almost non-existent and this is a slight problem.

Overall a clever, funny look at the life of a couple of party girls around the time disco started to suck. Not to everyone's taste and what's that credit sequence ending about? - is it a bit of fun or is it trying to say something?