Whit (Stillman), your wit is totally lost on me. How can a movie purport to be about the electrifying days of disco and be as bland as 'The Last Days of Disco' (1998)? His directorial style is unimaginative. If he tried to direct for TV, he wouldn't make it. And, all that yammering from the characters made me want to scream, "Shut up!" Some call Whit insightful, but, thankfully, I don't know or have known people like this. A much better film about the era was made by Paul Thomas Anderson the year before (1997). 'Boogie NIghts' is far more entertaining on every level.

Amusing, clever, funny, witty, insightful, and, best of all, deeply romantic without being at all sentimental. But, yes, also slow-moving and dry as sandpaper.

As you can tell from the divisive reviews here, Stillman's films are an acquired taste and will not please a broad audience. That said, I am a fan of all three of the trilogy films (Metropolitan, Barcelona, & Last Days of Disco). They have a unique style and the dialogue is in a world of it's own. Barcelona is my personal favorite choice out of the three.

Another good film by American auteur Whit Stillman.

I lost the will to watch this after the first 30 minutes. While Stillman captured the background and design of Disco Era, he failed to give me characters that I should care about.

Writer/Director Whit Stillman is an acquired taste and like many delicious things, worth the effort. I recently rewatched Last Days of Disco after seeing his lastest film Damsels in Distress. I love this film! Chloe Sevigny dancing to disco is a pure joy to behold. I love the dialogue. I love the soundtrack. This film makes me happy. Don't miss the extras which include audio of Whit reading from the Last Days of Disco book - even better than the movie. Next up Barcelona!

Yuppie soap opera wih snappy dialogue (sometimes) and a pseudo documentation of the "glamor" of the disco era.

Whit Stillman movies are always a bit odd. Everyone's a bit awkward and scenes sometimes jump ahead in time with few clues for the audience. The dialogue is clever but unrealistic. For some reason this works, all of this comes together to reflect the time at hand - the end of college, the start of adulthood, the transition to a new decade and in this case a new music and sensibility. His are not easy films but I find them very enjoyable.

This movie was terrible. “Dumb, boring and stupid” Waste of time - Waste of Electrical power.
It would be a waste of money to buy. "I fast forwarded all the way."

I checked this out after reading an article where this film was included in a recent film series at BAM. A story about college friends in their late 20's set in the early '80's who frequented a popular club? I turned it off after an hour, why? I didn't feel any sense of a relationship within this group, I didn't follow who was who/what their history was and finally, the '80's is when I went to clubs and the director wasn't able to recreate the scene as I remembered it. Though I like Chloe Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, I felt they were hampered by lifeless script and couldn't save it.