'Damsels in Distress' creates a world of archly articulate nostalgia ✭✭✭

College is a strange, serendipitous time and place: Events, experiences, strangers come swooping into your life like birds of prey and before you know it you're carried off somewhere wholly new. In "Damsels in Distress," writer-director-cinematic dandy Whit Stillman's first feature since "The Last Days of Disco" (1998), all the key females are named after flowers.

Michael Phillips

April 12, 2012