Whit Stillman est un scénariste et réalisateur américain connu pour ses représentations astucieuses de la "haute bourgeoisie urbaine", terme qu'il utilise pour désigner l'élite WASP de la classe supérieure au sein de la culture américaine. Ses films examinent avec perspicacité l'ironie et la maladresse inhérentes aux rituels sociaux et au discours intellectuel. Stillman capture magistralement le vocabulaire unique et les absurdités des cercles d'élite. Son œuvre est célébrée pour son esprit distinctif et sa perspective non conventionnelle sur les dynamiques sociales.
This volume brings together two screenplays which celebrate two different cities - New York in winter and Barcelona in summer. Metropolitan won the New York Film Critics Best New Director Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
HISTORICAL FICTION. Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands - and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest's wife and the title of 'most accomplished coquette in England', Lady Susan must rethink her strategy. Unannounced, she arrives at her brother-in-law's country estate. Here she intends to take refuge - in no less than luxury, of course - from the colorful rumors trailing her, while finding another avenue to 'I do'. Before the scandalizing gossip can run its course, though, romantic triangles ensue