11 Films to See in May
May marks the official start of the summer movie season. While that means the usual assortment of superhero films (including, this week, the rather promising Captain America: Civil War), this May will also bring an atypically strong crop of indie and foreign releases, including new films from Whit Stillman, Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos, Rebecca Miller, and more.
A fine pairing of material with director, this adaptation of Jane Austen’s early novella Lady Susan reunites director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Damsels in Distress) with his The Last Days of Disco stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny. Beckinsale plays Lady Susan Vernon, a widow scheming to find suitors for herself and her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark). Sevigny plays an American who is her best (and maybe only) friend, but, according to reviews from the film's premiere at Sundance, it’s Beckinsale’s show all the way despite strong supporting performances by Stephen Fry as Sevigny’s husband and Tom Bennet as a rich but dim-witted potential husband.
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