Whit Stillman Presents Metropolitan

Director: Whit Stillman

1990 / 98min / 35mm

For one night only, director Whit Stillman returns to Metrograph to present a 35th anniversary screening of Metropolitan, one of the most iconic New York independent films of the ’90s and a true Metrograph favorite. An irresistibly quotable comedy of manners and a tour through an Upper East Side peopled by teenage patrician debutantes and dandies, the film follows bright-eyed downwardly mobile Princetonian Edward Clements as he encounters a group of contemporaries self-dubbed the “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie,” fresh affections and rivalries are forged, and the newcomer is introduced to their manipulations, cruelties, and endless over-intellectualization of emotions.

Distributor: Rialto Pictures

Q&A with director Whit Stillman moderated by critic Vadim Rizov on Friday, December 19th