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| LAST DAYS OF DISCO, THE (1998) - R
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ReviewScore: 75 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco is inspiring the same sort of admiration -- some of it, faintly grudging -- among film critics that his earlier films, Metropolitan and Barcelona did. Janet Maslin in the New York Times views the film as the completion of a "beguiling, literate trilogy." Thelma Adams in the New York Post says the film exhibits Stillman's "power to make us mourn something as silly and transient as disco." Stillman "almost makes you believe that those sweaty, snobbish and overcrowded [disco] clubs might have been fun," observes the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan, who calls the writer-director's work "wonderfully clever and confident." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post gives the film high praise. Stillman, he writes, "seems like a David Mamet who actually paid attention during English class and learned a thing or two. Yet he's always amusing in his sly way, and this film is in its own way a near epic." But Eleanor Ringel in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution concludes that "Stillman's picture may not have any more emotional heft than a Donna Summer hit. But on its own terms, it's a smart and quite watchable film." And says Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "There's some brilliantly amusing stuff going on ... and Stillman's cast, one and all, is perfect. But their charms, and the film's are limited, and even, after a while, just a tad annoying." |
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