65-440: Lady Susan is an epistolary novella by Jane Austen , possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character. Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother-in-law and his wife, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine
130-401: A convent correspond over a 17-year period, exchanging letters describing their lives. Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel Frankenstein (1818). Shelley uses the letters as one of a variety of framing devices, as the story is presented through the letters of a sea captain and scientific explorer attempting to reach the north pole who encounters Victor Frankenstein and records
195-579: A costume drama, because it's a pretty funny comedy, so it's really not what you might anticipate. It's not Downton Abbey in any way, shape or form. There are a lot of very good English comic actors who have done the supporting parts and really shine. I love Jane Austen. I sort of wanted something of my own to work on between paid script writing assignments. It's good that I had so much time with no producer or studio executive wanting delivery quickly because it's an incredibly funny novella she wrote, but hard to read and hard to dramatize. It's an epistolary form from
260-542: A genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson , with his immensely successful novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1749). John Cleland 's early erotic novel Fanny Hill (1748) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient. In France, there was Lettres persanes (1721) by Montesquieu , followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , and Choderlos de Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782), which used
325-454: A large number of inserted letters already dominated the narrative. Other well-known examples of early epistolary novels are closely related to the tradition of letter-books and miscellanies of letters. Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault 's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d'obligation et d'amour ) (1669), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet were expanded and became more and more distinct from
390-525: A new husband for herself, and one for her reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica, too. As Lady Susan embarks on a controversial relationship with a married man, seduction, deception, broken hearts, and gossip all ensue. With a pitch-perfect Austenian sensibility, Stillman breathes new life into Austen's work, making it his own by adding original narration from a character comically loyal to the story's fiendishly manipulative heroine, Lady Susan." Stillman wrote and directed three comedies of manners released in
455-408: A novel-length reconstruction of Lady Susan , was published by Crown Publishing in 2009. Written by mother-and-daughter co-authors Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, the adaptation reinterprets the work to conform closely to Austen's more mature prose style. A further adaptation of the text, in the form of a novelization by director Whit Stillman , was announced for publication to coincide with
520-685: A pen and scribbling her diary entries under the most dramatic and unlikely of circumstances. Oliver Goldsmith used the form to satirical effect in The Citizen of the World , subtitled "Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London to his Friends in the East" (1760–61). So did the diarist Fanny Burney in a successful comic first novel, Evelina (1788). The epistolary novel slowly became less popular after 18th century. Although Jane Austen tried
585-675: A polyphonic one. The epistolary novel form has continued to be used after the eighteenth century. Whit Stillman John Whitney Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film Metropolitan , which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . He is also known for his other films, Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), as well as his most recent film, Love & Friendship , released in 2016. Stillman
650-704: A real detective for whom Doyle only acted as a literary agent . Epistolary novels can be categorized based on the number of people whose letters are included. This gives three types of epistolary novels: monophonic (giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun and The Sorrows of Young Werther ), dialogic (giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni 's Letters of Fanni Butler (1757), and polyphonic (with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ). A crucial element in polyphonic epistolary novels like Clarissa and Dangerous Liaisons
715-440: A rueful, ironic-romantic glaze." Stillman's effectiveness at the box-office has been mixed. He filmed Metropolitan for about $ 250,000, according to Stillman, with a box-office return of about $ 3 million. Barcelona was then filmed on a budget of under $ 3 million, returning just under $ 8 million. His third film was not a box-office success; its budget of $ 8 million returned about $ 3 million. Stillman, in an AOL interview following
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#1732772800415780-468: A small group of preppy , Upper East Side Manhattanites making the rounds at debutante balls during Christmas break of their first year in college. Though he is a socialist deeply skeptical of the SFRP's upper-class values, Tom (Edward Clements) grows increasingly attached to the cynical Nick ( Chris Eigeman ) and plays an important part, of which he is largely unaware, in the life of Audrey ( Carolyn Farina ),
845-468: A stint as a junior editor at The American Spectator , a conservative magazine. Stillman has subsequently distanced himself from his work for the Spectator, stating that he now hates "to be drawn into ideological debates" and prefers to remain " apolitical ". He was introduced to some film producers from Madrid and persuaded them that he could sell their films to Spanish-language television in
910-440: A story to arise as I’m writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn’t want to do it that way. They also knew about the film, so they commissioned six scripts for the first season that they were going to let me postpone until I finished this film, which
975-594: A temporary breach between Reginald and Lady Susan, but the latter soon repairs the rupture. Lady Susan decides to return to London and marry her daughter off to Sir James. Reginald follows, still bewitched by her charms and intent on marrying her, but he encounters Mrs. Manwaring at the home of Mr. Johnson and finally learns Lady Susan's true character. Lady Susan ends up marrying Sir James herself, and allows Frederica to reside with Charles and Catherine at Churchill, where Reginald De Courcy "could be talked, flattered, and finessed into an affection for her." The main character
1040-510: A wealthy but insipid young man she loathes. She also becomes a guest at Churchill. Catherine comes to like her—her character is totally unlike her mother's—and as time goes by, detects Frederica's growing attachment to the oblivious Reginald. Later, Sir James Martin, Frederica's unwanted suitor, shows up uninvited, much to her distress and her mother's vexation. When Frederica begs Reginald for support out of desperation (having been forbidden by Lady Susan to turn to Charles and Catherine), she causes
1105-525: A widow and a mother, her main goals are to quickly marry off her daughter Frederica (of whom she is contemptuous, regarding her as stupid and stubborn) to a wealthy man, and to marry an even better match herself. Mrs. Vernon describes her as: ...really excessively pretty. ... I have seldom seen so lovely a woman as Lady Susan. She is delicately fair, with fine grey eyes and dark eyelashes; and from her appearance one would not suppose her more than five and twenty, though she must in fact be ten years older. I
1170-539: A young debutante. Many of the exclusive interior locations were lent to Stillman by family friends and relatives. The film premiered and was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival . Metropolitan was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Drama) at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival . Stillman won Best First Feature at the 6th Independent Spirit Awards and
1235-430: Is "well bred" and has the air of "a woman of fashion." She feels far more affection and concern for Frederica than Lady Susan does, and often laments Lady Susan's great neglect of her daughter. Brother-in-law to Lady Susan. An amenable man who allows her to stay at his home. Brother of Mrs. Vernon. He is handsome, kind, warm, and open, but rather gullible. Mrs. Vernon writes in a letter to their mother, "Oh! Reginald, how
1300-422: Is aged about 35 or 36 years old (middle-aged for the time). She is the daughter of an earl . She is a widow of just a few months, who is known to flagrantly manipulate and seduce single and married men alike. As she has been left in a financially precarious state due to the death of her first husband, she uses flirtation and seduction to gain her objectives and maintain a semblance of her former opulent lifestyle. As
1365-577: Is derived from Latin from the Greek word epistolē ( ἐπιστολή ), meaning a letter (see epistle ) . This type of fiction is also sometimes known by the German term Briefroman or more generally as epistolary fiction . The epistolary form can be seen as adding greater realism to a story, due to the text existing diegetically within the lives of the characters. It is in particular able to demonstrate differing points of view without recourse to
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#17327728004151430-462: Is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England". Among Lady Susan's conquests is the married Mr. Manwaring. Catherine's brother Reginald arrives a week later, and despite Catherine's strong warnings about Lady Susan's character, soon falls under her spell. Lady Susan toys with
1495-474: Is hatred, than something colorless and unspecific. Also, I love anachronism and this was the chance to film, essentially, a costume picture set in the present day or recent past. But a large part of the idea was to disguise our pitifully low budget by filming the most elegant subject available." Barcelona (1994) Barcelona , his first studio-financed film, was inspired by his own experiences in Spain during
1560-482: Is now. So in ten days, we’ll be full on with that. It’s been really good because I think I was waiting for the idea I really want, and I think I have that now. It’s not exactly Paris, it’s a European idea. So it will be Chloe and Adam Brody. We’ll keep the pilot, that’s part of the story, but we’ll be going a different place with it." - Whit Stillman, shortly before the world premiere of Love & Friendship at Sundance In 2016, Amazon stated that: "Our agreements with
1625-441: Is the dramatic device of 'discrepant awareness': the simultaneous but separate correspondences of the heroines and the villains creating dramatic tension. They can also be classified according to their type and quantity of use of non-letter documents, though this has obvious correlations with the number of voices – for example, newspaper clippings are unlikely to feature heavily in a monophonic epistolary and considerably more likely in
1690-555: Is very shy and it is only over time that the reader can perceive that rather than being stupid and stubborn, she is a sweet, sensible girl whose kind nature continually is at odds with Lady Susan's venal selfishness. Frederica is not as beautiful as her mother, but has a mild, delicate prettiness which, together with her evident ability to feel gratitude, endears her to the Vernons. Sister-in-law to Lady Susan. Lady Susan easily perceives how much Mrs. Vernon dislikes her, but allows that she
1755-476: Is your judgment enslaved!" Confidante and mother of Mrs. Vernon. Lady De Courcy trusts her daughter's judgement and is concerned that Reginald not be taken in by Lady Susan. The intimate friend to whom Lady Susan confides all her true scheming. Mrs. Johnson has an immoral mindset similar to that of her friend. Stuck in a marriage with a sensible man whom she does not love, whom Lady Susan derisively describes as "just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have
1820-524: The Barcelona character of Ted Boynton, and Metropolitan' s heroine Audrey Rouget reappears briefly as a successful publisher, as do a few other characters from that film, as clubgoers. In 2000 Stillman published a novelization of the film, titled The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards . The novelization won the French 2014 Prix Fitzgerald Award. Stillman stated in 2006 that he
1885-714: The St. Lawrence Arts Center in Portland, Maine . Epistolary novel An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered to include novels composed of documents even if they do not include letters at all. More recently, epistolaries may include electronic documents such as recordings and radio, blog posts, and e-mails . The word epistolary
1950-403: The disco scene of Manhattan in the "very early 1980s". Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale play roommates with opposite personalities who frequent disco clubs together. The Last Days of Disco concludes a trilogy loosely based on Stillman's life and contains many references to the previous two films: a character considers a move to Spain to work for American ad agencies there after meeting with
2015-423: The 18th century and there are all these very funny ideas and lines buried within. It's kind of an inaccessible format and it was a long process of adaptation." Criterion Collection Release In April 2016, The Criterion Collection released a retrospective box set edition of Metropolitan , Barcelona , and The Last Days of Disco , available on Blu-ray and DVD. Stillman himself oversaw the digital transfers of
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2080-562: The 1990s: Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), and The Last Days of Disco (1998); he published a novel based on the last of these films. After completing his film trilogy, Stillman left independent comedy and started researching and writing a series of scripts set abroad. In August 1998 (shortly after The Last Days of Disco was released) he left his loft conversion in Manhattan's SoHo and moved to Paris. He returned to New York in 2010. A fourth film, Damsels in Distress ,
2145-451: The 2011 Venice Film Festival as the closing film and received favorable reviews. The film is "about three young women at an East Coast university, the transfer student that joins their group and the young men they become entangled with." The Cosmopolitans (2014) In 2014, Stillman wrote and directed the pilot episode of the TV series The Cosmopolitans for Amazon Studios on August 28, 2014,
2210-484: The 21st century. The novel shows the genre's results of changing perspectives: individual points were presented by the individual characters, and the central voice of the author and moral evaluation disappeared (at least in the first volume; further volumes introduced a narrator). The author furthermore explored a realm of intrigue with complex scenarios such as letters that fall into the wrong hands, faked letters, or letters withheld by protagonists. The epistolary novel as
2275-552: The Arts at the Ohio State University held a 25-year retrospective of the career and films of Stillman including his film titled Love & Friendship . At the time of the retrospective, Stillman was asked: "Your films all have a sort of costume drama sensibility, but without the costumes, and now you've made a costume drama, period dress and all." Stillman responded by stating that: " Love & Friendship doesn't loom as
2340-615: The US. He worked for the next few years in Madrid and Barcelona as a sales agent for directors Fernando Trueba and Fernando Colomo , and sometimes acted in their films, usually playing comic Americans, as in Trueba's film Sal Gorda . Metropolitan (1990) Stillman wrote the screenplay for Metropolitan from 1984 to 1988 while running an illustration agency in New York, and he financed
2405-448: The close and quickly ricocheting contacts of social atoms—and where social rules, hidden beneath the murky surface of daily life, emerge more clearly, in ritualized isolation. The second is something that happens at the party: a dance, but a formally patterned one where the rules are the very subject." - Richard Brody , 27 August 2014 Love & Friendship (2016) A film version of one of Jane Austen's early short novels Lady Susan
2470-496: The content provider don’t allow purchases of this title at this time." "The bulk of the pilot of “The Cosmopolitans” involves several of Stillman’s signature subjects. The first is a party: the male trio, plus Aubrey, head to a soirée at the posh apartment of an arrogantly wealthy Parisian acquaintance (or perhaps a German in Paris), Fritz (Freddy Åsblom). For Stillman, parties are laboratories where possibilities arise suddenly from
2535-406: The device of an omniscient narrator . An important strategic device in the epistolary novel for creating the impression of authenticity of the letters is the fictional editor. There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel: The first claims that the genre is originated from novels with inserted letters, in which the portion containing the third-person narrative in between the letters
2600-429: The dying man's narrative and confessions. Published in 1848, Anne Brontë 's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it. In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula . Printed in 1897,
2665-528: The early 1980s. Stillman has described the film as An Officer and a Gentleman , but with the title referring to two men rather than one. The men, Ted and Fred, experience the awkwardness of being in love in a foreign country culturally and politically opposed to their own. The Last Days of Disco (1998) The Last Days of Disco was based loosely on Stillman's experiences in various Manhattan nightclubs, including Studio 54 . The film concerns Ivy League and Hampshire graduates falling in and out of love in
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2730-404: The epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly. In Germany, there was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's The Sorrows of Young Werther ( Die Leiden des jungen Werther ) (1774) and Friedrich Hölderlin 's Hyperion . The first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague (1769) by Frances Brooke , and twenty years later
2795-614: The epistolary in juvenile writings and her novella Lady Susan (1794), she abandoned this structure for her later work. It is thought that her lost novel First Impressions , which was redrafted to become Pride and Prejudice , may have been epistolary: Pride and Prejudice contains an unusual number of letters quoted in full and some play a critical role in the plot. The epistolary form nonetheless saw continued use, surviving in exceptions or in fragments in nineteenth-century novels. In Honoré de Balzac 's novel Letters of Two Brides , two women who became friends during their education at
2860-526: The epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell (1594–1666) with "Familiar Letters" (1645–50), who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women. Perhaps first work to fully utilize the potential of an epistolary novel was Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister . This work was published anonymously in three volumes (1684, 1685, and 1687), and has been attributed to Aphra Behn though its authorship remains disputed in
2925-399: The film by selling the insider rights to his apartment (for $ 50,000) and with the contributions of friends and relatives. Loosely based on Stillman's Manhattan days, with his divorced mother during the week of Christmas break 1969 during his first year at Harvard, Metropolitan tells the story of the alienated Princetonian Tom Townsend's introduction to the "Sally Fowler Rat Pack" (SFRP),
2990-409: The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789) by William Hill Brown , were both written in epistolary form. Starting in the 18th century, the epistolary form was subject to much ridicule, resulting in a number of savage burlesques . The most notable example of these was Henry Fielding 's Shamela (1741), written as a parody of Pamela . In it, the female narrator can be found wielding
3055-550: The general release of the film (under the same title) on 13 May 2016, starring Kate Beckinsale. Alexandra Alter of The New York Times states in her 2016 interview article with Stillman, describing the novelization: "In the novel, Mr. Stillman takes the characters and plot from Austen's fictionalized letters and narrates the tale from the perspective of Lady Susan's nephew, who hopes to counter criticism of his maligned aunt. The 41 letters from Austen's Lady Susan are included in an appendix." Stillman told Alter that he felt Lady Susan
3120-721: The gout – too old to be agreeable, and too young to die", she delights in hearing of and making suggestions for Lady Susan's manipulative plans. Whit Stillman 's adaptation of Lady Susan , retitled Love & Friendship after Austen's juvenile work of that name , was included in the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016. The US release date was 13 May 2016. The film stars Kate Beckinsale , Chloe Sevigny , Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry . It received strongly positive reviews. The stage adaptation Lady Susan: Jane Austen's Distinguished Flirt by Bonnie Milne Gardner
3185-469: The novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like. The biographic stylings of the Sherlock Holmes adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle have lead to the tradition of a " Sherlockian game " among the Sherlock Holmes fandom , where fans discuss the supposed writings of Dr. Watson as though they were a genuine account of
3250-447: The other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ). The immensely famous Letters of a Portuguese Nun ( Lettres portugaises ) (1669) generally attributed to Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues , though a small minority still regard Marianna Alcoforado as the author, is claimed to be intended to be part of a miscellany of Guilleragues prose and poetry. The founder of
3315-400: The pilot was available and Amazon Prime users could watch the pilot episode and vote to pick it up for a full series. On July 11, 2016, Tom Grater reported that Stillman was commissioned by Amazon to write six new scripts to continue his original pilot film for The Cosmopolitans . "I explained to Amazon that I don’t like outlining or projecting what something’s going to be. I like to allow
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#17327728004153380-482: The reason for the long gaps between his films is that "Stillman is sometimes simply too damn smart for his own good. You can't always tell at whom he's poking fun, or why, and it becomes unfortunately easy to typecast him as the WASP answer to Woody Allen and conclude that his movies are insufferably irritating documents of privilege. He himself is aware of that possibility the whole time, and bastes his entire worldview in
3445-427: The twenty-fifth anniversary of Metropolitan , refers to himself as having been put into "director's prison" for more than 10 years before he made Damsels . His 2016 film Love & Friendship , a comedy based on a Jane Austen story, was a box-office success, grossing more than $ 20 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 3 million. Series 25-Year Wexner Center film retrospective The Wexner Center for
3510-428: The younger man's affections for her own amusement and later because she perceives it makes her sister-in-law uneasy. Her confidante, Mrs. Johnson, to whom she writes frequently, recommends she marry the very eligible Reginald, but Lady Susan considers him to be greatly inferior to Manwaring. Frederica, Lady Susan's 16-year-old daughter, tries to run away from school when she learns of her mother's plan to marry her off to
3575-798: Was E. Digby Baltzell , a University of Pennsylvania professor and chronicler of the American upper class . He attended the Collegiate School in New York City, Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, and Millbrook School in Stanford, New York . He majored in history at Harvard University , where he wrote for its student newspaper The Harvard Crimson . After graduating from Harvard in 1973, Stillman began working as an editorial assistant at Doubleday in New York City, followed by
3640-626: Was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., to Margaret Drinker (née Riley), from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a Democratic politician, John Sterling Stillman, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs under President John F. Kennedy (a classmate of Stillman's father at Harvard), from Washington, D.C. His great-grandfather was businessman James Stillman ; his great-great-grandfather, Charles Stillman , founded Brownsville, Texas . Stillman
3705-642: Was certainly not disposed to admire her ... but I cannot help feeling that she possesses an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliancy and grace. Lady Susan is cold towards her daughter, for whom she feels little or no affection: she calls her "a stupid girl" who "has nothing to recommend her." It is possible that Jane Austen drew on the character of the mother of her neighbour, a beautiful Mrs. Craven, who had actually treated her daughters quite cruelly, locking them up, beating and starving them, till they ran away from home or married beneath their class to escape. Daughter of Lady Susan. Oppressed by her mother, Frederica
3770-460: Was gradually reduced. The other theory claims that the epistolary novel arose from miscellanies of letters and poetry: some of the letters were tied together into a (mostly amorous) plot. There is evidence to support both claims. The first truly epistolary novel, the Spanish "Prison of Love" ( Cárcel de amor ) ( c. 1485 ) by Diego de San Pedro , belongs to a tradition of novels in which
3835-433: Was nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for Best Original Screenplay . He won the 1990 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director. The movie was a financial success, grossing about $ 3 million on a budget of $ 225,000. In an interview Stillman said of the film, "The material seemed pretty rich, almost rank. And perhaps it's better approaching a subject people feel strongly about, even if that strong feeling
3900-464: Was not quite finished and thought the form of the book was "so flawed". After realising that there was another story to be told, he convinced the publisher Little, Brown and Company to let him write the novel. In November 2020, Jane Austen's Lady Susan (a play) by Rob Urbinati was published by Samuel French . and its world premier performance was produced October 2021 by the Good Theater at
3965-682: Was performed at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1998 and is published by Scripts for Stage. A two-woman version of Lady Susan , adapted by Inis Theatre, played at the Dublin fringe festival in 2001–2. An adaptation by Christine U'Ren was performed by Bella Union Theatre Company at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, California, in July 2009. Lady Susan (a novel) , a 1980 complete re-write by Phyllis Ann Karr . Lady Vernon and Her Daughter ,
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#17327728004154030-569: Was raised in Cornwall, New York , and experienced depression during puberty. "I was very depressed when I was 11 or 12," he recounted to the Wall Street Journal . "I was sent to the leading Freudian child psychologist in Washington, D.C. It was heck. The last thing I needed to talk about was guilt about sex." However, when his parents separated, he found that his depression ceased. "I actually felt healthier." Stillman's godfather
4095-481: Was released in 2011, premiering out of competition as the closing film at the 68th Venice International Film Festival . The Guardian in 2012 compared Stillman to Terrence Malick , another filmmaker who has "come to owe a good part of their mystique to the very paucity of their oeuvre...The lengthy gaps in between (films) have created expectations that are hard to fulfil, and admirers have been inclined to overestimate their achievement." A reviewer at Salon wrote that
4160-852: Was reported by Entertainment Weekly on January 22, 2016. This followed the indication that Little, Brown and Company would be publishing the screenplay adapted by Stillman The film premiered in January 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival under the title of Love & Friendship . Although the plot of the film is adapted from Lady Susan , the actual title used ( Love & Friendship) is from another, unrelated early epistolary novel by Austen, unpublished during her lifetime. It received universal acclaim from critics. The promotional announcement by Little, Brown and Company summarized Stillman's adaptation stating; "Recently widowed, Lady Susan arrives, unannounced, at her brother-in-law's estate to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. While there, she becomes determined to secure
4225-644: Was working on several unfinished scripts. He had been slated to direct a film adaptation of Christopher Buckley 's novel Little Green Men , but in a 2009 interview, Stillman said the adaptation is "[not] happening, at least with me." He was writing another film, Dancing Mood , set in Jamaica in the 1960s, which was not produced. Damsels in Distress (2011) After a 13-year hiatus, Stillman released his fourth film, Damsels in Distress , starring Greta Gerwig , Adam Brody , Hugo Becker and Lio Tipton (credited as Analeigh Tipton). It premiered September 10 at
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