Whit Stillman is one thing of a cult movie director. He rose to prominence in 1990 along with his debut movie Metropolitan, which grew to become the primary within the so-called “Doomed. Bourgeois. In love” trilogy: Barcelona got here out in 1994 and The Final Days of Disco in 1998. Set amongst America’s so-called “Preppy” class, the movies are comedies of manners within the custom of Jane Austen, exploring the transitional section of youth and a sure American identification.
The movies are actually having one thing of a revival. Stillman joins the New Statesman’s tradition editor Tanjil Rashid.