Both Kate Beckinsale and Tom Bennett came away with wins at the London Critics Circle Film Awards.
The fabulous Kate and Naomie pic.twitter.com/z2ZG593zh1
— UK Critics’ Circle (@londoncritics) January 22, 2017
Tom Bennett and his award pic.twitter.com/eI5zYrt3nv
— UK Critics' Circle (@londoncritics) January 22, 2017
Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship is number 5 on Richard Brody’s The New Yorker’s Best Movies of 2016.
Brody also picked Stillman as one of best directors, Kate Beckinsale as one of the best actresses, Tom Bennett as one of the best supporting actors, and Whit Stillman again for one of the best screenplays of 2016.
Profound thx @londoncritics for 7 noms! 2 @KateBeckinsale 2 @newmanstings 2 @LandFMovie & 1 script! https://t.co/FEirJHSLmG @ArtificialEye
— Whit Stillman (@WhitStillman) December 20, 2016
Newsweek writer Nina Burleigh has this to say about Love & Friendship (one of the top 21 films of the year, picked by Newsweek):
The dialogue delights the ear and mind; there are lots of laughs; and the spirit of Lady Susan, brought to impish life by Beckinsale, is balm for the female soul. That apparently is what Stillman intended. “I’m a pleasure seeker, and I want people to have 90 minutes of pleasure, not pain,” he said recently. “To have a positive, interesting world, cheerful in some way—I like that.” So do we. —Nina Burleigh