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The third in Whit Stillman's excellent trio of talkative yet thought-provoking odes to days gone by. This installment is set in the Manhattan of the early 80's (chronologically between "Metropolitan" and "Barcelona") as the hedonistic disco era is on the wane and the money-grubbing self-absorbed era of junk bonds and MTV is on the rise. Two conservative recent Hampshire College graduates slave away as editorial assistants by day and vampy party-goers by night. Witty thoughtful banter moves this film along without the need for an oppressive disco soundtrack or gratuitous drug usage that seem to permeate films of the timeframe.
Industry Reviews
"...[Stillman] again renders his characters' fretfulness in deft, funny and improbably touching ways..."
New York Times - Janet Maslin (05/29/1998)
"...Sharp-eyed and charming....Made with Stillman's trademark dry wit and whimsical sense of humor..."
Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (05/29/1998)
"...[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire....The underlying tone of the film is sweet, fond and a little sad..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/29/1998)
"...Stillman evokes the hopeful melancholy of world-weary kids searching, á la Chic, for good times..." -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly - Troy Patterson (10/16/1998)
"A masterful evocation of the giddiness and instantaneous nostalgia of waning youth."
Film Comment - Film Comment Staff (07/01/2009)
"It's hard to watch this movie and not feel nostalgic -- not for the end of the disco era, but for those heady late-'90s days when small, almost novelistic movies like this were relatively common..." -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club - Noel Murray (08/26/2009)
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