Whit Stillman’s debut film, Metropolitan, made many a top-10 list in 1990. With its nuanced, self-aware and hyper-verbal characters, it displayed an it’s-so-old-that-it’s-new charm. For sheer degree of difficulty, Metropolitan may have posed the most daunting filmmaking challenge of the year: how to make us care about preppies (or HUBs,…
