A fourth film , '' Damsels in Distress '' , was released in 2011 , premiering out of competition as the closing film at the 68th Venice International Film Festival . '' The Guardian '' in 2012 compared Stillman to Terrence Malick , another filmmaker who has " come to owe a good part of their mystique to the very paucity of their oeuvre ... The lengthy gaps in between films have created expectations that are hard to fulfil , and admirers have been inclined to overestimate their achievement . " A reviewer at '' Salon '' opined that the reason for the long gaps between his films is that " Stillman is sometimes simply too damn smart for his own good . You ca n't always tell at whom he 's poking fun , or why , and it becomes unfortunately easy to typecast him as the WASP answer to Woody Allen and conclude that his movies are insufferably irritating documents of privilege . He himself is aware of that possibility the whole time , and bastes his entire worldview in a rueful , ironic-romantic glaze . " Stillman 's effectiveness at the box-office has been mixed . He filmed '' Metropolitan '' for about $ 250,000 , according to Stillman , with a box-office return of about $ 3 million . '' Barcelona '' was then filmed on a budget of under $ 3 million , returning just under $ 8 million . His third film was not a box-office success ; its budget of $ 8 million returned about $ 3 million . Stillman , in an AOL interview following the twenty-fifth anniversary of '' Metropolitan '' , refers to himself as having been put into " director 's prison " for more than ten years before he made '' Damsels '' . His 2016 film , '' Love & Friendship '' , a comedy based on a Jane Austen story , was a box office success , grossing more than $ 20 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 3 million
68th Venice International Film Festival
68th Venice International Film Festival
Whit Stillman