Whit Stillman es un guionista y director estadounidense conocido por sus astutas representaciones de la "alta burguesía urbana", término que él utiliza para la élite WASP de clase alta dentro de la cultura estadounidense. Sus películas examinan agudamente la ironía y la incomodidad inherentes a los rituales sociales y el discurso intelectual. Stillman captura magistralmente el argot único y las absurdidades de los círculos de élite. Su obra es celebrada por su ingenio distintivo y su perspectiva poco convencional sobre la dinámica social.
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