VividSimon Simply Perfect

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

felicia blake I haven't even watched the whole movie yet but had to come on here to pay tribute to the music. The soundtrack is brilliant and totally fitting of the times and scenes that played out in the film. Was pleasantly surprised to see they even included the wonderful Techniques Queen Majesty in the piece.Ok, the story isn't as strong but the characters are engaging enough to keep you interested in watching, in my humble opinion.54 was released the same year and I guess got most of the attention and plaudits but this film is well worth a look

tvbob-1 Maybe. But these characters are just plopped right into the middle of the story and we find no reason to really care about them. Everything seems to revolve around a disco club. Well, we get that. The movie is called a romance. Kind of. But comedy? Ummm. No.The dancers are silent while we are privy only to the quiet conversations of the characters (about whom I guess we are supposed to care). A nice technique the director uses to get the story across.But the plodding movement and development of the plot drags. Are you looking to doze off? Last Days of Disco might be your perfect antidote.

sandover I do not mean it as an aesthetic judgement, just a sort of an essay in translating in logical terms the hard to pin down effect it had on me, for all the shallow characters on display, it is affectively rich.It is a film difficult and at the same time deceptively simple to summarize - the only way I feel I can do it is pin down the tone as I see it: Chloe Sevigny plays Alice who is not in Wonderland or Oz (even if the occasional characters appear in Discoland) but actually seems more like Voltaire's Candide, candid even when confronted with her "best friend"'s common, constant, bitchy smugness, who in fact turns into some kind of likable caricature in the end, likable that is when you think she is some kind of irony's scapegoat: she simply HAS to end up in TV, that is the crippled purgatory she deserves.Along with Alice, Josh (Matt Keeslar) has his Candide moment in the end, as outsider spokesman for the disco era: I do not think Stillman is ironic here - and the reason why is that in the comedy of human flaws Stillman wants to present us, we get our ironic portion of that in Chekhovian levity, so I do not think that anyone would end up something in a flat note.The film ends in a lively manner that is also nostalgic and shorthand, that is affectionately shorthand as, one supposes, all Stillman's films are. How can it be otherwise? Here he offers us - could we call it a vision? - Candide (in his simple, clear morality) in a Chekhovian play keeping time in Bret Easton Ellis' era. It can't equate into more than zero, but it warps itself out unbalancing that 80's nothing, proving in a blink of an eye the famous less is more.

HeadleyLamarr I cannot believe that less than 4 thousand people saw this film and it rates a 6.A classic tale of young men and women growing up in New York, the hunt for hang out spots, meaningful relationships, career advancement - what's to not like? Chloe Sevigny is luminous as Alice - vulnerable, impressionable, confused. Kate Beckinsale has done her finest role ever as Charlotte. She is unintentionally bitchy, destructive and selfish - reminds me of all the harm that one can do without ever wanting to. Chis Eigman is brilliant as Des - he was the one to watch in Metropolitan and he is the one who walks away with the kudos here. Matt Keeslar does very well as the slightly disturbed, taking no for an answer Josh.There is cynicism is in the real life moments of drugs, sex, disease - but the film is quite naive and sweet in how the good guys get the goodies in the end.The mood is well done - the disco club exciting, but the conversations in the club were almost incomprehensible over the music. This is one film that needs to be out of DVD so I can watch it again with subtitles. It was delightful!