comedy-drama film
written and directed by Whit Stillman
and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan
, including Studio 54
. The film concerns a group of Ivy League
and Hampshire
graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of Manhattan in the "very early 1980s". Chloë Sevigny
and Kate Beckinsale
have the lead roles.
The Last Days of Disco is the third film in what Stillman calls his "Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series", which begins with Metropolitan
and continues with Barcelona
.
Do you think the neurological effects of caffeine are similar to that of cocaine?
I could be gay.
Our bodies are not really designed for group social life. We're really designed for pairing off.
I have a gay mouth?
[to Josh] Are you taking your medication?
For me, Wednesday was gay day.
I'm not an addict. I'm a habitual user.
Yuppie stands for "young upwardly mobile professional". Nightclub flunkie is not a professional category. I wish we were yuppies. Young, upwardly mobile, professional. Those are good things, not bad things.
I don't want to lick the boots of your real gay friends.
Do you know that Shakespearean admonition 'To thine own self be true'? It's premised on the idea that 'thine own self' is pretty good, being true to which is commendable. What if 'thine own self' is not so good? What if it's pretty bad? Would it better, in that case. not to be true to 'thine own self'? See? That's my situation.