Cortez Nance Jr. Groundskeeper as Groundskeeper. Whit Stillman. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Violet and her two cohorts attempt to help their "less-fortunate" students at Seven Oaks College - primarily by running a Suicide Prevention Centre and offering their off-beat advice whenever they get a chance.
Violet's newest rescue is transfer student, Lily, and Violet wants to teach her how to talk and dress properly, and how to select appropriate men to be interested in. Along their way in helping everybody at the college, the damsels teach the fraternity doofi to hit the books, they get their hearts broken, but then attempt to start an international dance craze. Help them this spring. Rated PG for mature thematic content including some sexual material.
Did you know Edit. Goofs A rainbow is seen in the sky with light falling onto the trees from the right, but when looking at a rainbow the sun is always behind you.
Quotes Violet : Do you know what's the major problem in contemporary social life? Crazy credits The background behind the "Sony Pictures Classics" logo at the beginning is bright pink instead of its normal blue. Alternate versions The BBFC in the UK originally classified the film with a 15 rating, but later classified a modified version of the film with a 12 rating, which had some of the stronger sexual references removed.
User reviews 66 Review. Top review. Could it be another acquired taste I have not yet fully acquired? To be frank, it seems that Damsels in Distress has erected a world all its own, where pop culture doesn't exist and neither do Televisions, automobiles, or anything along the lines of utilities that we've become accustomed to today.
I love films that exist in the screenwriter's head. One of the more recent examples is Wes Anderson's majestic and enthusiastic Moonrise Kingdom, a film that appeared to have its own mindset and, within in it, its own set of characters, laws, rules, and agenda that it wanted to accomplish.
Damsels in Distress isn't quite as majestic and enthusiastic. It's rather monotone, uninteresting, and groggy for the most part. What a shame since this is director Whit Stillman's return to film after a thirteen year hiatus. The storyline concerns those four girls as they go about their lives at this preppy Ivy League school. One of the first things they do, after recruiting Lily, is recreate the school's "suicide prevention center" where they will use aroma therapy, donuts, and coffee in order to reassure students about their place in the world.
In the meantime, the girls began to get entangled romantically with men, from the sophisticated Charles Adam Brody to the absolute hunk Xavier also called, "Zavier," played by Hugo Becker. These relationships seem innocuous but prove to be possibly lethal to the girl's unbreakable bond together and this is what, sort of, gets the film on its feet.
Damsels in Distress seems like a satire lost at sea. It's satirizing, or attempting to, Ivy League life and the strange quirks it possesses. The problem is it never fully gets a grip and forms an agenda on what it wants to parody. We get shells of characters who feel robotic and cold, only capable of saying a funny line but incapable of brewing characterization. The satirical element isn't that witty and neither is much of the film.
This is more down the line of surrealism than satire. Stillman greatly reminds me of the quirk-expert I explored earlier this past summer and the man I just mentioned not too long ago; Wes Anderson. Stillman seems to be completely capable of setting up a beautiful long shot, focusing on characters, and intimately capturing life's wonderful eccentricities.
But he struggles in the same field Anderson struggled in with his two features, Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, respectively; he focuses so much on look and subtle beauty that he successfully undermines the storyline and the characters within it. Damsels in Distress concludes with a random song-and-dance number almost cementing the fact that there was no conceivable way to completely end this sort of story.
It's choppy and inconsistent. But it all looks pretty. Directed by: Whit Stillman. StevePulaski Sep 26, Details Edit. Release date April 26, New Zealand. United States. Official site. She probably likes novels where women are the arbiters of social circles. Now Stillman centers on a fictional college that's like an Ivy League school for those who are not very rich or smart.
Two of the men in Violet's life, for example, don't know the names of the basic colors; in one case, it's not so much that the kid is stupid as that his social-climbing parents made him skip kindergarten. Violet of course must have a posse; friends who are not quite as tall or in her mind not quite as pretty. They flank her, because Violet must always be centered. On the first day of the new school year, we meet them: Rose Megalyn Echikunwoke and Heather Carrie MacLemore , who both instinctively stand just a step behind her.
Violet has ESP when it comes to picking out new recruits, and she and her friends sweep down upon Lily Analeigh Tipton , a campus newcomer. Lily will be their new roommate. Thus will all of Lily's wardrobe, behavioral and boyfriend problems be handled for the next few years. Stillman writes his own dialogue, and is a master of clever double-reverse wit. I didn't mention Wodehouse by chance. He's also lucky to have found an actress in Gerwig who finds the perfect note for playing a woman who knows everything better than you do, but doesn't believe she's being stuck up about it; she's just being kind.
This is even true when she relieves poor Lily of her boyfriend, Charlie Adam Brody. The movie almost inevitably contains a campus musical, centering on Violet's new dance craze, the Sambola. This is not an inspired dance craze, nor is the musical destined for Broadway, but inspired by Violet, they are all perfectly rehearsed and keep on smiling, and their good nature is impossible to resist. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Rated PG for mature content, some sexual material. Adam Brody as Charlie. Carrie MacLemore as Heather. Megalyn Echikunwoke as Rose. Greta Gerwig as Violet. Analeigh Tipton as Lily. Reviews She has it all organized for you. Roger Ebert April 11,
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