Damsels in Distress
Starts Friday, May 11, 2012
- Directors: Whit Stillman
- Cast: Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore, Hugo Becker, Billy Magnussen, Ryan Metcalf, Jermaine Crawford, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Chris Angerman
Comedy. 99 minutes. PG-13. 2012
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Synopsis for Damsels in Distress:
"Most of the characters in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress— the principal damsels, for sure, and also some of the lads identified in the opening titles as "their distress" — speak in complete sentences and express complex, sometimes startlingly original ideas. This, friends, is news: a movie populated by young people who do not mumble, swear, punctuate their utterances with "like" or think that an incredulous "really?" represents the apogee of wit. Even if it did not have other charms, this peculiar, uneven campus comedy would be worth seeing for the delightful felicity of its dialogue."—A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Things are looking up: Whit Stillman (METROPOLITAN) has made Damsels in Distress, an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention. Greta Gerwig, the darling, leads the all-aces cast as Violet, a sophomore who yearns to make Seven Oaks U. a more congenial place for her and cohorts Rose, Heather, and Lily. Affronted by dorms that reek of soggy sweat socks, the girls seek to honor the best in a liberal-arts education and perfumed soap. This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed."—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.
"Damsels in Distress is deliberately and purposefully irrelevant; its irrelevance is its strength. It's zany-in-quotation-marks and also flat-out zany. I laughed until I cried, and you may too (if you don't find it pointless and teeth-grindingly irritating). Either way, Whit Stillman is back at last, bringing his peculiar brand of counterprogramming refreshment to our jaded age."—Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"Even were it not so delightful, Damsels in Distress, set at a fictional upper-crust college, would deserve a watch for its dialogue alone."—NPR, Jeannette Catsoulis