I can divide the world into two people: those who know who Audrey Rouget is, and those who don't.
Don't worry if you're in the latter. You're certainly not in the minority.
If you're in the former, then you know about Whit Stillman, and you've seen his first film, Metropolitan, which came our in 1990 and remains one of my favourite movies of all. It's about precocious upper-crust college kids in New York amusing themselves during Christmas vacation by talking non-stop, as if Jane Austen's characters had been transplanted through time and space. (Austen is actually a narrative thread in the movie.)
Stillman got an Oscar nomination for the screenplay for Metropolitan, which was about the rich but was made on a shoestring. He only made two films after that, in a similar vein: Barcelona, about young U.S. expats in Spain, and The Last Days of Disco, about young adults in the late Seventies ... and featuring a cameo, by the way, of Audrey Rouget,who (I should explain) was one of the main characters of Metropolitan.
Actually, Stillman has made a third film. Fourteen years after The Last Days of Disco comes Damsels in Distress, which comes out in April. It also features bright, overly articulate young adults, and it does look promising. Here's the trailer.
