Question: Are the directors of films The Last Days Of Chez Nous and Something For The Birds both from the same country?

The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 American comedy- drama film written and directed by Whit Stillman, and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. The film concerns a group of Ivy League and Hampshire College graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of New York City, in the" very early 1980s". Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale have the lead roles. " The Last Days of Disco" is the third film( after" Metropolitan"( 1990) and" Barcelona"( 1994)) in what Stillman calls his" Doomed- Bourgeois- in- Love series". The three films are independent of each other except for the cameo appearances of some common characters. According to Stillman, the idea for" Disco" was originally conceived after the shooting of" Barcelona"'s disco scenes. In 2000, Stillman published a novelization of the film, titled" The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards". It won the 2014 Prix Fitzgerald Award. The film was released theatrically in the United States on June 12, 1998; its DVD and video releases followed in 1999. The DVD releases eventually went out of print, and the film was widely unavailable for home video purchase until it was picked up by The Criterion Collection and released in a director- approved special edition on August 25, 2009. Along with" Metropolitan" and" Barcelona", a print of" The Last Days of Disco" resides in the permanent film library of the Museum of Modern Art. <SEP> Made in a style that emphasizes naturalism over melodrama, the film centres on what happens after Vicki arrives at the house of her older sister Beth, whose French husband falls for her. The film stars Bruno Ganz as the Frenchman JP, New Zealand actor Kerry Fox as the impulsive younger sister, and Lisa Harrow as her older sibling. The cast also includes Miranda Otto and Bill Hunter. The Last Days of Chez Nous is a 1992 Australian drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and written by Helen Garner. <SEP> The Last Days of Pompeii( 1950) is a black and white French- Italian drama film, directed by Marcel L'Herbier" in collaboration with" Paolo Moffa, who was also the director of production. It was adapted from Edward Bulwer- Lytton's novel" The Last Days of Pompeii". The film has also been known as" Sins of Pompeii". <SEP> Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Among his other films are "The Body Snatcher" (1945), "Born to Kill" (1947), "The Set-Up" (1949), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Destination Gobi" (1953), "This Could Be The Night" (1957), "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958), "I Want to Live!" (1958), "The Haunting" (1963), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "The Hindenburg" (1975) and  (1979). Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987. Robert Wise has been viewed as a craftsman, inclined to let the (sometimes studio-assigned) story concept set the style. Later "cineastes", such as Martin Scorsese, insist that despite Wise's legendary workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan. Wise achieved critical success as a director in a striking variety of film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre. Wise's meticulous preparation may have been largely motivated by studio budget constraints, but advanced the moviemaking art. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998. <SEP> Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists. Gillian May Armstrong( born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. <SEP> Something for the Birds is a 1952 film directed by Robert Wise and starring Victor Mature and Patricia Neal.