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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Whit Stillman |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 August, 1990 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Line Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Comedies, Feature Film-comedy, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794043436031 |
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Customer Reviews of Metropolitan
Great flick Awesome, I've been waiting a few years for this come out on DVD. This is a modern classic for anyone who appreciates great independent films. Stillman was one of the best in the 90's. <
>This production and script should be mandatory study for any aspiring film students. Barcelona and Last Days of Disco are also worth checking out, but this was his masterpiece. <
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>If you've never seen it, it's definitely a thumbs up.
The Discreet Charm of the UHB
Made for almost nothing, Whit Stillman's lovely first film from 1990 demonstrates that the pleasures of film can lie in dialogue as well as in images in motion. Tom Townsend, a cynical Princetonian from the West Side, is persuaded to invest in renting a tux by a set of more privileged peers who want him to accompany them to debutante balls at glamorous faded hotels like the Plaza and the St. Regis, and then hang out until all hours in their deluxe East Side apartments afterwards. The film cuts costs as ingeniously as Tom by filming most of its scenes in these swanky living rooms (one of which was owned by the parents of one of the young actors). The film depicts a basically Fitzgeraldean vision of the young and wealthy, with the boys mostly romantic cynics and all the young women (except the idealized Audrey, the shy heroine who falls in love with Tom) more pragmatic and sexually adventurous. But Stillman's feel for this world seems very real, and his dialogue is very sprakiling and literate (the intellectual sources the young people cite--Fourier and Trilling--are charmingly anachronistic). The cast is excellent, although the standouts are Chris Eigemann, as the funny and trenchant Nick, and the gifted Carolyn Farina, who makes the timid Audrey seem deeply endearing.
a look at high class society
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
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>Metropolitan is about some people living in New York City who attend debutante parties and other parties. One of them is of the middle class and shows his attempts to fit in.
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>The film has some humor in it and has some nice scenes of New York City.
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>The DVD has optional audio commentary by the film's director, Whit Stillman, editor Christopher Tellefsen, and actors Chris Eigeman and Taylor Nichols. Also included are outtakes with optional audio commentary, and scenes with alternate actors with optional commentary.