LOVE & FRIENDSHIP Trailer Debut Here is the first LOVE & FRIENDSHIP trailer! The film, directed by Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress), stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, and Stephen Fry. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP will be released in theaters on May 13. Set in the 1790s, Love and Friendship centers on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.