The Last Days in Disco

(PolyGram)

This salute from Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona) is set in the very early '80s, where recent college grads Alice (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) are scraping together a living in a Manhattan publishing house and spending their nights at an exclusive disco dancing and meeting men. Mixing and matching, our heroes display callow treachery and tenderness even as Stillman's effervescent dialogue is making him the Jane Austen of the urban bourgeois demi-monde.