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starring: Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen, Mira Sorvino, Pep Munné directed by: Whit Stillman List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Barcelona EAN: 9780780632998 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780632990 Label: Turner Home Ent Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 02, 2002 Running Time: 101 minutes Sales Rank: 38617 Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: July 29, 1994 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Two upright uptight american guys are tossed into spain into a comic romantic situations with mira sorvino and other lovely ladies. Special features: subitles in english french spanish portuguese japanese chinese thai and korean: alternate ending: additional scenes: mira sorvino interview and much more. Studio: Castle Rock Hm Video Release Date: 04/02/2002 Starring: Mira Sorvino Taylor Nichols Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Whit Stillmann Amazon.com: Writer and director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco) offers up this poignant and cutting romantic 1990 comedy set in the magical southern Spanish metropolis, a city in the midst of cultural and political upheaval. Taylor Nichols (Metropolitan) plays an American living in the Catalonian capital working for a stateside company. He is visited by his unctuous cousin (Chris Eigeman), a naval attaché who's in Barcelona to spin a little public relations for the impending arrival of the U.S. fleet amid some virulent left-wing, anti-American attitude. The two cousins are constantly at odds, arguing about everything from politics to women to their true feelings for one another and their constant self-examination. Largely the two men spend their time in search of romance abroad, as they humorously overanalyze the women they meet and what they want from a relationship, until fate takes a shocking turn and both men are forced to reevaluate who they are and what they want out of life. Barcelona features a turn from Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) as a Spanish national working as a hostess, free with her sexuality and smitten with Eigeman. Stillman's writing is as crisp and observant as his striking visual take on the city and its people, both natives and expatriates. Barcelona is a terrific comedy of attitudes and culture clashes that manages to be offbeat, sardonic, and unexpectedly wise. --Robert Lane Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Thin plot -- Lame acting ... Two Americans reunite in Barcelona and pursue relationship with indigenous females. One is an expat working for a US Corporation; the other man is a Navy officer serving as an advance man for the fleet. They encounter much anti-American sentiment. The actors give their lines as though they were reading them. If this is a romantic comedy, I must confess I don't think I laughed once. I pulled this movie because it was compared favorably to the recent Woody Allen film, "Vicky, Christie ... Read More Rating:  - Barcelona and the Life of a SalesmanMaybe sales can be a noble pursuit... maybe burgers are pretty good eats... and maybe american culture has within its fibre the white blood cells necessary to overcome family hardship, personal isolation and the disease of consumerism ... or maybe you'ld just like to see a vaunt-courier turned one-eyed seaman in a flash of bang! Well, if so, watch this movie, it makes you all cuddly inside--i watch it at least once a year. And remember, if you look at human society like an ant farm... europeans hate ants! Rating: - Are there ants in Barcelona?There is this sense that Whit Stillman was sitting at his chair at the Academy Awards, awaiting word on his screenplay for "Metropolitan", sipping his wine from Napa Valley, and thinking that he could easily repeat this again, using some of the same cast, coupled with similar language. Stillman thought this, but as followers of his like Noah Baumback and Wes Anderson can agree, it is very difficult to achieve. Stillman's second outing, entitled simply "Barcelona"; it is a dry, sometimes witty, report of ... Read More Rating: - We need films like this in times like theseFor an American expat living in Europe, Barcelona's complex sense of indignation and resignation at how Americans are viewed abroad rings true. Beautifully written, and shot like a love letter to its titular city, this excellent, intelligent film helps me find a way to laugh through the tears. I recently bought Stillman's earlier film, Metropolitan, and I found that it has held up, if anything, slightly better than Barcelona as time has passed. In both films the dialogue is marvellous, and the characters familiar. ... Read More Rating: - A must seeThis witty and very intelligent comedy is a slice of life of two 30-something Americans in Spain. Ted's an awkward, yet successful sales representative, who's down on his luck with the ladies. As a result, he plunges himself into a series of self-help methods as well as religion. After an unexpected, late night phone call, his cousin Fred, a junior naval officer, and the quintessential ugly-American, who's got no problem forcing his two-cents on anyone, ends up staying with him. Ted's not happy with this, as he still ... Read More |
