Stillman says: "My favourite side of the filmmaking process is just what we’re doing now. To talk to someone who enjoyed the film is the greatest pleasure that you can have. And it amuses me that there are these people who are reluctant to do publicity on their projects."
"Damsels is only Stillman’s fourth picture but he really needs to get his skates on if he’s going to overcome his shortcomings, but that’s only after he learns to accomodate a story concerned with coherance rather than quirk. He’s no Terry Malick, yet."
ClickOnline writes: "The new tone makes Damsels perhaps Stillman’s most fluid film yet, with the hyper-real quality allowing some interesting stylistic choices to sit more comfortably than the sometimes forced eloquence of earlier efforts. It really is a charming production, which builds towards a fantasy-ish finale that you’ll find hard to resist"
"Filmmaker Whit Stillman has been away for a time, he makes no bones about that. Looking easily ten years younger than his supposed age of 60, he smiles as he perches atop a comfortable looking sofa in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel. It’s a question he’s been asked many times of late – what, exactly, has he been up to for the last twelve years? “It’s a sad and boring story”, he admits wryly."
