Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.
Writer/Director: Whit Stillman
Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120728/
Watched online, ok print.
30 songs in the Soundtracks, none performed onscreen.
I found no character to like here, no one whose fate I wanted to know, no one interesting.
Tagged Music because the majority of screen time is within a disco with music playing and people dancing. I have no idea what moments were supposed to be comedic.
People are cruel to each other verbally/emotionally, sometimes apologize, never seem to be sincere about it.
The NYC "railroad" apartment (narrow, no hallways except exterior) is a nightmare for 3 people to share, especially to be single and bringing home people to sleep with. As much as I envy B'way shows being in NYC, the amount of money needed to live well there seems enormous.
Disco actually dies during the film's time. One of the characters makes a semi-passionate speech that disco will live on in some form even if it's dormant for years. I suppose we do still have "dance music" and clubs that cater to people dancing (and drugging and whatever.) So in a sense that was true? I'll say that at one point in the film I desperately wanted to turn off the disco music. I don't think any film in the disco era had such an insidious soundtrack.
Avoid.
Rated 6.7 (11,040)
distr. Gramercy, dir. Stillman; 5
