Barcelona (film)

Barcelona is a 1994 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Whit Stillman and set in Barcelona. The film stars Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman and Mira Sorvino.

This article is about the 1994 American film. For the 2016 Philippine film, see Barcelona: A Love Untold.
Barcelona
Promotional poster
Directed byWhit Stillman
Produced byWhit Stillman
Antonio Llorens
Jordi Tusell
Written byWhit Stillman
Starring
Music byMark Suozzo
CinematographyJohn Thomas
Edited byChristopher Tellefsen
Production
company
Distributed byFine Line Features
Release date
  • July 29, 1994 (1994-07-29)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.2 million
Box office$7.3 million

Barcelona is the second film (after Metropolitan (1990) and preceding The Last Days of Disco (1998)) 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.

Plot

The main character in Barcelona is a Chicago salesman named Ted Boynton, who lives and works in the eponymous Spanish city in the early 1980s. Ted's cousin, Fred, a naval officer, unexpectedly comes to stay with Ted at the beginning of the film. Fred has been sent to Barcelona to handle public relations on behalf of a U.S. fleet scheduled to arrive later.

The cousins have a history of conflict since childhood, to which the film refers several times. Ted and Fred develop relationships with various single women in Barcelona and experience the negative reactions of some of the community's residents to the context of Fred's presence. Ted also faces possible problems with his American employer and with the concept of attraction to physical beauty.

Cast

Reception

Barcelona received an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews.


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