Movies that capture the atmosphere of the city.
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L’Auberge Espagnole (2002)
Hapless young Xavier leaves home in France to study in Barcelona and beef up his resume; winds up sharing an amiably chaotic coed flat with six other exchange students of assorted nationalities. Cultural miscommunication, self-discovery, pairing, and bonding: Friends with a touch of European self-seriousness under the comedy.
All About My Mother (1999)
Oscar-winner Pedro Almodóvar’s ode to motherhood—with a supporting cast of Barcelona’s raunchiest types: transsexuals, hookers, and drug addicts. Begins in Madrid in tragedy—the heroine’s son is killed in a traffic accident—and gradually transforms itself in Barcelona into life-affirming comedy, and a paean to the theater.
Barcelona (1994)
Indie film about two young American cousins—one a salesman, the other a junior naval officer—thrown together in Barcelona when the latter is assigned to handle the spin for the arriving U.S. fleet. Coming-of-age, club-hopping, military-industrial politics, and quirky liaisons. Lightweight, but good fun.
The Passenger (1975)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s rumination on the human condition, with Jack Nicholson playing a burnt-out journalist who takes the identity of a dead man. Scenes shot in Barcelona on Las Ramblas and in Gaudí’s Palau Güell. Co-starring Maria Schneider.
