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The Last Days of Disco is about a couple of female book-publishing peons--impressionable Alice (Chloe Sevigny) and bitchy Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale), who masquerades as Alice's best friend-and their involvement with a group of guys; Jimmy (Mackenzie Astin), who's making a mess of his advertising job; snaky assistant district attorney Josh (Matthew Keeslar); glib environmental lawyer Tom (Robert Sean Leonard); and the disingenuous Des (Chris Eigeman), a "flunky” at the hot club of the moment.
At the disco, an after-hours bar, on the streets, these kids blatantly humiliate each other, subtly switch their romantic allegiances, as everyone in their early twenties is wont to do...What seems like idle chatter in Stillman's urbane comedies of manners contains seeds of conscious and unconscious intent-often planted in the past-that bear fruit in later scenes. That's standard screenwriting practice, but Stillman has the knack of showing us rather than telling us how people change over time, and it's compelling. That it comes as no shock when we learn why Charlotte hates Alice, or that Alice and Des are having a fling, is part of the fun. This is the fabric of Stillman's films, and it's also their essence.
Graham Fuller
Interview
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