>Last night I watched Whit Stillman's newest film _Barcelona_ in which two >American males discussed life and romance while living in Spain during the >last decade of the Cold War. Much was made over the differences between >the natives and their American counterparts. Yet... I am >perplexed as to why Stillman chose an American to represent the qualities >of Barcelona women that are a source of endless meditiation. Stillman has said that he chose the actresses (neither of whom, I believe, are Spanish) because he wanted women who spoke English as a first language. The idea was that he didn't want any of his characteristically talky dialogue to be at all unintelligible. -r. k. ferncase e-mail: [log in to unmask] Chapman University Film & Television Home Page: http://nexus.chapman.edu:80/comm/ftv/index.html ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]