Metropolitan (1990)

Director: Whit Stillman Cinematographer: John Thomas


Stillman’s Oscar nominated low budget comedy of manners concerns the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan. In addition to some of their debutante parties, it covers their frequent informal after-hours gatherings at a friend’s Upper East Side apartment, where they discuss life, philosophy, and their fate. They form attachments, romances, and intrigues and react to a radical but less well-to-do newcomer. An ironically comic look at the lives of New York preppies that is recognised as one of the most significant achievements of American independent film of the 1990s.

The Criterion Collection (DVD)
A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
Barcelona and Metropolitan: A Tales of Two Cities (2 Screenplays) Paperback
Laserdisc
Metropolitan POSTER Movie (11 x 17 Inches – 28cm x 44cm) (1990) (Spanish Style A)

• No. 3 on National Review’s 25 Best Conservative Movies (2009)