Damsels in Distress

Damsels in Distress original title Violet Wisters Damsels in Distress and Whit Stillmans Damsels in Distress is an American comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman and starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton. It is set at a United States East Coast university. First screened at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, the film opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 6, 2012.

The film was Stillmans first produced feature since The Last Days of Disco. In August 1998 he had moved from New York to Paris with his wife and two daughters. In that time he wrote a novelisation of The Last Days of Disco plus several original film scripts which were not made, including one set in Jamaica in the 1960s. He resolved to make a lower budgeted film in the style of his debut, Metropolitan. In 2006 he met with Liz Glotzer and Mart Shafter at Castle Rock Entertainment, who had financed his second and third films. ShaferWhit said, I want to write a movie about four girls in a dorm who are trying to keep things civil in an uncivil world. It took him a year to writepages. Six months later, a few more dribbled in. He just doesnt work very fast. Finally we had a draft. When we started production he said, I thinkyears is the right amount of time between movies. ........

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