Posted: June 3, 2016 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Barcelona, Chloȅ Sevigny, Damsels in Distress, Dangerous Liaisons, James Fleet, Jane Austen, Kate Beckinsall, Ken Loach, Lady Susan, Love & Friendship, Metropolitan, Olivier Gorce, Redgrave, Robert Altman, Stéphane Brize, Stephen Fry, Terence Malick, The Last Days of Disco, The Measure of a Man, Tom Bennett, Vincent Lindon, Whit Stillman, Xavier Samuel | 1,439 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Two films have recently opened, Love & Friendship and The Measure of a Man, that both deal with issues of class, and I don’t mean the “you have no” kind, but class as in upper, lower and all things in between.
Whit Stillman, the cinematic chronicler of the sons and daughters of the upper crust, began his career with Metropolitan, a character study of a group of the haves and what happens when they end up with a have less over Christmas break, the last year before everything went to hell and fell apart after sex, drugs and rock and roll took over and it all went to pot (pardon the pun).
It was a wonderful début, suggesting that a new and unique voice had arrived on the independent scene. He followed that up with two even better films, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco.
He, then, well, disappeared for a while, which was both a puzzlement and a disappointment, only to return, years later, with a new film. Read the rest of this entry »
