Film-makers on film: Whit Stillman

The American independent film writer and director tells Benjamin Secher how Mark Sandrich's The Gay Divorcee (1934) inspired his work

'I'm not sure how this will tie in to your question," says Whit Stillman, adopting the nervous yet determined gaze of a man who is about to give an extraordinary answer to an ordinary question, "but I think some of Fred Astaire's dance performances prove the existence of God."

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