Filmwell Lines to Live By: The Last Days of Disco

Des in Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco:

“You know that Shakespearean admonition, ‘To thine own self be true’? It’s premised on the idea that ‘thine own self’ is something pretty good, being true to which is commendable. But what if ‘thine own self’ is not so good? What if it’s pretty bad? Would it be better in that case not to be true to thine own self?”

And that is one of the reasons why The Last Days of Disco is my favorite Whit Stillman film.

Check out clips from Stillman’s upcoming film Damsels in Distress here.