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''The Last Days of Disco'' is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Whit Stillman and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. The film concerns a group of Ivy League and Hampshire graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of New York City in the "very early 1980s". Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale have the lead roles. ''The Last Days of Disco'' is the third film in what Stillman calls his "Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series", which begins with ''Metropolitan'' and continues with ''Barcelona''. According to Stillman, the idea for ''The Last Days of Disco'' was originally conceived after the shooting of disco scenes in ''Barcelona''. In 2000, Stillman published a novelization of the film, titled ''The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards''. The film was released theatrically in the United States on May 29, 1998, and its DVD and video releases followed in 1999. The DVD releases eventually went out of print and the film was widely unavailable for home video purchase until it was picked up by The Criterion Collection and released in a director-approved special edition on August 25, 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Last Days of Disco (1998) - The Criterion Collection )〕 Along with ''Metropolitan'' and ''Barcelona'', a print of ''The Last Days of Disco'' resides in the permanent film library of the Museum of Modern Art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Museum of Modern Art official website )〕 ==Plot== In the early 80s Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), two young Hampshire College graduates. work in a New York publishing house as poorly paid readers. After work they are able to enter an exclusive disco nightclub where Alice is hoping to meet Jimmy Steinway (Mackenzie Astin), who works in advertising and uses the nightclub to entertain clients. Jimmy is ill-tempered because he has been barred from bringing clients to the nightclub and is eventually kicked out by his friend Des McGrath (Chris Eigeman), who works as a manager at the club but whose job is in jeopardy for allowing Jimmy and his clients inside. After Jimmy leaves, Alice takes Charlotte's advice to go home with her second choice, Tom Platt (Robert Sean Leonard). At work the following morning Charlotte and Alice talk with other editors about how to fast-track their careers. They also decide to move in together with a third girl, Holly (Tara Subkoff), as they cannot afford to pay the rent on their own. Despite Alice's reluctance, the women eventually settle on a railroad apartment. Returning to the club, Alice is upset to learn that Charlotte has designs on Jimmy. She is further upset when Tom tells her that when he slept with her he had a long-term girlfriend he was separated from and that their one-night stand convinced him to return to her. Des begins to pursue Alice but she repeatedly turns him down. At work Alice decides to pursue the publication of a book on Buddhism written by the Dalai Lama's brother that Charlotte had previously recommended rejecting, and gains the editors' respect. Later she discovers that the writer of the book is in fact not the Dalai Lama's brother, but maintains that the book is one of the best she ever read. At the club in front of a group of their friends, Charlotte loudly announces that Alice has gonorrhea after figuring it out when Alice refuses to drink. Charlotte later apologizes to Alice but tells her not to be embarrassed as it will make men think of her as more accessible. Des becomes more interested in pursuing Alice. Alice has dinner with Tom to confront him about giving her an STD. He initially denies it, arguing she contracted it from someone else, but she tells him he was her first sexual partner. He then tells her he also gave her herpes. Meanwhile Josh Neff (Matt Keeslar), a D.A. and friend of Jimmy's who frequently attends the club, asks Alice to lunch to pitch a book to her. At lunch he confesses he is not interested in writing a book but in Alice. Alice and Josh go on a real date, where he tells her that he is on medication for manic depression. Upon returning home from the date Alice discovers Charlotte being taken away in an ambulance after a miscarriage and being told by Jimmy that he was moving to Barcelona. At the hospital Charlotte asks Alice if Jimmy ever expressed interest in being with her and when Alice admits that he did Charlotte reacts with tears and tells her she will be moving out. In the meantime the nightclub is raided by the police for tax fraud and Des tries to run away despite Josh's promise to protect him, believing that Josh's interest in Alice will cause him to act unfairly. They later discover that even before the club was raided by the police disco records were no longer selling and attendance was down. Some time later, Charlotte, Josh and Des head out from the unemployment office. Josh tells the group that he is going to Lutèce for lunch, paid for by Alice who is celebrating her promotion after her book was published after she switched it from non-fiction to self-help. Des and Charlotte talk about how their big personalities are too much for normal personalities like Alice, Josh and Jimmy. Des also says that pairing off monogamously detracts from their glamorous lifestyle and Charlotte agrees. Meanwhile, on a subway on their way to Lutèce Alice and Josh dance to Love Train and are eventually joined by the entire car. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Last Days of Disco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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