6/10
I watched this one a while ago but never reviewed it. It was OK. It started off very promising with a really cool, persistent disco soundtrack. At first I thought the whole movie would take place over one night in the club, which would have been great. But as we got to know the characters better the movie took a dip for me. Writer/director Whit Stillman call this part of his "doomed-Bourgeois-in-love" trilogy and that's a pretty apt description of what happens here as you get to watch a bunch of white, well-to-do, attractive people bicker and try to find their way as young adults. Their problems come off as very much the privileged, first-world kind and none of the characters are especially sympathetic, and often they feel more like ciphers for Stillman's unique lines and phrasings as opposed to relateable adults. The beginning is good, the end is good, but I kind of wish the middle was a different movie about different things. Good soundtrack though!
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