Summary Of The Film 'The Last Days Of Disco'
In the 1970s nostalgia film The Last Days of Disco, Alice, a quintessential ingénue played by a young
Chloë Sevigny, frets about how to seduce the boy she likes. Her friend Charlotte recommends that, at some point during their date, she strategically refer to something as “sexy.” The object of sexiness might be a movie, a song, a skyscraper — whatever. The boy will get the hint.
Alice seizes her moment when the topic of Walt Disney movies comes up. “There’s something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck,” she observes. Because this is a Whit Stillman movie and not, say, a Farrelly brothers movie, her forced come-on resounds with awkwardness. If you know anything about Scrooge
McDuck, you know he’s not exactly sexy.
The boy knows that she’s
Chloë Sevigny, frets about how to seduce the boy she likes. Her friend Charlotte recommends that, at some point during their date, she strategically refer to something as “sexy.” The object of sexiness might be a movie, a song, a skyscraper — whatever. The boy will get the hint.
Alice seizes her moment when the topic of Walt Disney movies comes up. “There’s something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck,” she observes. Because this is a Whit Stillman movie and not, say, a Farrelly brothers movie, her forced come-on resounds with awkwardness. If you know anything about Scrooge
McDuck, you know he’s not exactly sexy.
The boy knows that she’s