The Last Days of Disco
This is the third Whit Stillman movie I have seen, and sadly so far that's all he's made. I hear rumors now and then that he may be working on a new project, but after ten years I won't be desperately holding out.
I think I had originally heard his name included along with some of my other favorite independent filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and Hal Hartley. I think if you like either of them and haven't seen any Stillman movies, you will find him in a similar vein. He certainly has his own style. But like the others mentioned, these are movies about ideas, and characters who speak freely and sometimes almost unrealistically literarily about their ideas. But to me this style brings us almost beyond reality. It's something that appeals to me in a way that is perhaps too complicated to attempt to discuss it or too simple to try to over explain it.
Stillman's movies are about real times and places. Strangely enough they are about times and places that would have normally had virtually no appeal to me, and to be honest while watching his movies I still often hate many of his characters but for some reason I want so much to hear what they have to say next.
Rating: 9/10