Whit Stillman's whimsical campus comedy "Damsels in Distress" is an utter delight. Sweet-natured Violet (Gerwig, “Greenberg”) and her coed coevals Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke, “24,” “That ’70s Show”) ...

In a murky apartment, a muscular gent clad in trousers and slung-down suspenders plays the trumpet for a dark-haired vixen tied to a chair. He takes the instrument from his lips, but its tune blares ...