The Last Days of Disco
Clubs, nightclubs and other rowdy dance floors are places of ligthness, seduction or dissidence, where musical trends, dramas and romances are born. They are the sulphurous theater of the bodies that are bring together , but also a mental space that can make the multitude and the solitude, the party feeling and the melancholy coexist. From the disco scene of the 1970s to today, this cycle brings together films where people dance without a tomorrow, in the light of neon and strobes.
Charlotte and Alice get to know each other when they are hired by a New York publishing house. A friendship mixed with rivalry develops between these two young women that everything seems to oppose except for a common passion: disco.
Whit Stillman
John Whitney Stillman is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He is also known for his other films, Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco *(1998), *Damsels in Distress (2011), as well as his most recent film, Love & Friendship, released in 2016.
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