Georgetown

In the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., Ulrich Mott (Christoph Waltz) is a social climber who has married Elsa Brecht (Vanessa Redgrave), a well-connected journalist decades older than he is. Waltz directs this one himself, and Ulrich uses her name and her dinner parties to make himself impossible to ignore. Only Elsa's daughter Amanda (Annette Bening) stays unmoved, and the film is about how far ambition will go to be taken seriously.