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Whit Stillman

    Whit Stillman è uno sceneggiatore e regista americano noto per le sue astute rappresentazioni dell'"alta borghesia urbana", termine che usa per l'élite WASP di classe superiore nella cultura americana. I suoi film esaminano acutamente l'ironia e l'imbarazzo inerenti ai rituali sociali e al discorso intellettuale. Stillman cattura magistralmente il gergo unico e le assurdità dei circoli d'élite. La sua opera è celebrata per il suo ingegno distintivo e la sua prospettiva non convenzionale sulle dinamiche sociali.

    Love & Friendship
    Barcelona and Metropolitan
    • 2016

      Love & Friendship

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      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

      Love & Friendship
    • 1995

      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.

      Barcelona and Metropolitan