Barcelona movie review & film summary (1994)
Whit Stillman's "Barcelona" is a reminder that there is a broad strata of American society that goes all but ignored by the movies. His subjects are smart, intense but somewhat naive white-collar workers, young men in their 20s and early 30s, who wear suits and ties to work and are very serious about themselves and still try, self-consciously, to talk in a way that might sound impressive at an undergraduate management seminar. Stillman brings great wit and wicked humor to his subjects, but he doesn't make fun of them - he likes them. Advertisement In "Metropolitan" (1990), his first film, he ...