For his third feature film The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman graduated to better financing
and a bigger budget, but maintained his unique writing style and
characterization depicting the “Urban haute bourgeoisie” of his first film Metropolitan. Again the characters are
well-educated Ivy Leaguers and New England liberal arts college graduates who
spend a lot of time talking. Stillman’s Barcelona
brought these characters to another country, but this time he brought them back
to New York City, where the well-to-do of that first film paraded around in
tuxedos and ball gowns discussing philosophy, literature and social mores. The
setting has changed slightly with the characters frequenting the dying disco
scene of the early 80s, but the conversations are similar.
