Whit Stillman
Author of The Last Days of Disco, a novel
Works by Whit Stillman
Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated (2016) 123 copies, 2 reviews
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- Legal name
- Stillman, John Whitney
- Birthdate
- 1952-01-25
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Harvard College (AB)
- Occupations
- director
screenwriter - Organizations
- Doubleday
The American Spectator - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Places of residence
- Cornwall, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Barcelona, Spain
Madrid, Spain - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Adaptation of Lady Susan at Sundance Film Festival in I Love Jane Austen (June 2016)
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A strange little film - entertaining and more amusing than laugh out funny. Very much for Jane Austen fans - it's Austen on steroids. You can see the seeds of her later characters in this but without her later subtlety.
Love & friendship : in which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon is entirely vindicated ; concerning the beautiful Lady Susan Vernon, her cunning daughter & the strange antagonism of the DeCourcy family. by Whit Stillman
I guess it could be called literary chicklit. I read it after seeing the movie and enjoyed both, but I think I wouldn't have enjoyed the book much without the movie.
I was intrigued by the idea of seeing Whit Stillman rethink Jane Austen, and I thought the novel might give me insight into his artistic process. But there's very little here that isn't in the movie, and the movie's a lot better.
Grim but funny trifle. The actors delivered their lines as if they had just memorized them seconds ago.
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- Rating
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