Alan Ayckbourn is at both his near-best and his laziest in "Damsels in Distress," the second in an ad hoc sequence of London theatrical trilogies. Three unrelated plays using the same cast on the same ...

The college girls in Whit Stillman’s witty frolic Damsels in Distress, his first film since 1998, seem at the outset to be as horrible as the infamous Heathers trio. They’re pretentious, condescending ...

Throughout the world of people old enough to remember the American indie filmmakers of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was quiet rejoicing as word trickled out that Whit Stillman had made a new ...

“There’s no logic to the algebra of love,” says one of the female characters in Damsels in Distress, an extremely dry and self-aware indie romantic comedy by director/writer Whit Stillman (The Last ...

A film that raises laughs even with its end credits, Whit Stillman‘s whimsical campus comedy “Damsels in Distress” is an utter delight. Making a welcome return to helming after a long sabbatical ...

Champs-Elysées Film Festival Honors Indie Genius Whit Stillman, Plus a Retrospective on His Films and More on His Upcoming Project THE COSMOPOLITANS Whit Stillman and Greta Gerwig DAMSELS IN DISTRESS ...

In the case of Damsels in Distress, the created world is Seven Oaks University, which has all the earmarks of being one of those expensive schools for not very bright people. At the very least, most ...

Whit Stillman’s character always had plenty to say. So don’t blame the 14-year gap since his last feature for the sheer verbal density of Damsels in Distress. That’s because Stillman—in charming ...

Rather than Mean Girls, these damsels are philanthropists, on a mission to save their fellow students from depression, mediocrity and low standards. Their ringerleader Violet (Greta Gerwig) leads the ...