Country: USA, Spain
Year: 1994
Duration: 101'
Barcelona follows the romantic and political misadventures of two American cousins in postFranco Spain. The time is the last decade of the Cold War Ted Boyton is in Barcelona representing a Chicago company and recovering from a failed carnal relationship when his obnoxious cousin Fred arrives, disrupting Ted's living arrangements but greatly improving his social life. They become involved with a group of women who - soulful, beautiful or impertinent - live by a code the cousins never fully comprehend. In the midst of a wave of terrorist incidents directed at Americans, Fred's incautious behavior casts the threat of violence across the cousins' lives.
"Life does have its melodramatic turns, and while melodramatic events might not seem especially interesting in themselves, they could provide another prism to examine the lives of the characters affected. I ended up cutting back the plot, events, and melodrama to just those elements that I knew or felt through my own experience or the experience of others I know well." (Whit Stillman).
Biography
film director
Whit Stillman
Whit Stillman (Washington, DC; 1952) is a Harvard graduate and the author of short stories. During the 1980's he worked in the Spanish movie industry first as a sales representative for foreign markets and then as an actor portraying the "ridiculous American". His first film, Metropolitan, won the New York critics' prize as best new director and won an Oscar nomination for the best original screenplay. He has written articles for "The Village Voice", "The Guardian", "El Pais".
FILMOGRAFIA
Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), The Heart of Saturday Night (ep. della serie tv Homicide, 1996), The Last Days of Disco (id., 1998).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Whit Stillman.
Director of photography: John Thomas.
Art director: José Maria Botines.
Editor: Christopher Tellefsen.
Music: Mark Suozzo.
Sound: Licio Marcos de Oliveira.
Cast and characters: Taylor Nichols (Ted Boynton), Chris Eigeman (Fred Boynton), Tushka Bergen (Montserrat), Mira Sorvino (Marta), Pep Munne (Ramon), Hellena Schmied (Greca), Nuria Badia (Aurora Boval), Thomas Gibson (Dickie Taylor).
Director of Production: Fernando Macquerie.
Production company: Westerly Films, 611 Broadway, Rm. 829, New York, NY 10012, tel. +12129797354, fax +12125295277; Plus Red (Barcelona).
Foreign sales agent: Castle Rock International, London, Great Britain, tel. +4471-4093532, fax +44714999885.
Director of photography: John Thomas.
Art director: José Maria Botines.
Editor: Christopher Tellefsen.
Music: Mark Suozzo.
Sound: Licio Marcos de Oliveira.
Cast and characters: Taylor Nichols (Ted Boynton), Chris Eigeman (Fred Boynton), Tushka Bergen (Montserrat), Mira Sorvino (Marta), Pep Munne (Ramon), Hellena Schmied (Greca), Nuria Badia (Aurora Boval), Thomas Gibson (Dickie Taylor).
Director of Production: Fernando Macquerie.
Production company: Westerly Films, 611 Broadway, Rm. 829, New York, NY 10012, tel. +12129797354, fax +12125295277; Plus Red (Barcelona).
Foreign sales agent: Castle Rock International, London, Great Britain, tel. +4471-4093532, fax +44714999885.
