The famous 1970s New York City nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.
Writer/Director: Mark Christopher
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers, Sela Ward.
Watched online, distorted, sped up, zoomed in, grid covering the image.
40 songs in the Soundtracks, a few performed onscreen.
Sex, drugs and disco. This was more tolerable than the prior disco film, The Last Days of Disco ('98) for at least 2 reasons: the film was so distorted that it was a struggle to figure out what was going on, and the young man around whom the story revolved was likeable/interesting. It may have also been that the speeding up of the disco music made it less cloying, or that they selected tracks that were inherently less annoying.
However, this is not so interesting that I'd pay $5 for a disc (which is available today) to see what it's really like. The topic of this young innocent skill-less wannabe who crosses the river (from Jersey City) to experience life in Manhattan and gets pulled deeper and deeper into sex, drugs, money and betrayal, is just to routine. They are pretty people, so it might be good to look at, but it's more of a shrug from me.
Rated 5.8 (29,858)
Miramax & more, dir. Christopher; 6-
