Metropolitan (1990)

Yet another of writer/director Whit Stillman’s artsy gems that blends the vapid and the everyday. This time he focuses on a group of Manhattan preps. Days begin at sundown and include intellectual conversation and dancing. Tom Townsend (Edward Clements) joins the group after a chance meeting. But for this group of young adults, the question is how each of them will cope as their group grows apart.

Much like The Last Days of Disco, Stillman’s Metropolitan is boring at first glance and becomes oddly riveting. Why? I’m still unsure. But I wasted 90 minutes of my life watching these young nincompoops whine about their station in life—and enjoyed it.