Film shootings Made In Barcelona

Lately, Barcelona has become the center and focus of the film industry, both for actors and actresses of great success to a very prestigious directors. This is evidenced by the large number of films that have used the city of Barcelona for their props and locations.

However, the first film in which Barcelona is the city dates back to the year 1975con Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, who reodó The Passenger with actors the likes of Jack Nicholson, very young at the time, and Maria Schneider. What is more surprising is the appearance of the tram at the time and the terrace of La Pedrera, with its chimneys and shapes, with a character very different from today. Definitely a good movie. In Filmaffinity page of your score is 7.1.

But it was Pedro Almodóvar who shot to stardom Barcelona with his creation All About My Mother, 1999. With Penelope Cruz and Cecilia Roth as protagonists, Almodovar, who was running for the first time in Barcelona, ​​has revealed the city with all its essence. Consequently many internationally renowned directors begin to opt for Barcelona in the background of the action of his films.

An example is the French Cédric Klapisch, who in 2002 performed a comedy that teaches youth the vision he has a French student in the city of Barcelona through the Erasmus program. The most famous and beautiful sites that appear in this film, titled A madhouse, are La Rambla, Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell and the beaches of Barcelona and the atmosphere of the night and an open and cosmopolitan city. You know the neighborhood that appears in the film, the Raval, very easily, which is very close to the Ramblas, if you make a trip to Barcelona. It is also an area full of hotels and apartments in Barcelona center.

On the other hand, another recent film was The Machinist, 2004, directed by Brad Anderson. The film uses striking and attractive place in town, such as the Tibidabo amusement park or the Port of Barcelona. And back to the Spanish directors, we mention that one year after The Machinist, in 2005, Jaume Balagueró Fragile us a horror story filmed in Barcelona and set in the Mercy Falls Children's Hospital, with the popular actress Calista Flockhart, known for the television series Ally McBeal.

Reference should be made to two chapters of Manuale d'amore 2 (corrected and augmented), where it appears the city. Following the success of the first part, the Italian director Giovanni Veronesi took the decision to move the shooting in Barcelona and Rome for the company in Spain and Italy.

Barcelona appears as a bright city, focusing on the Village and the Olympic Port, the Gothic Quarter, the beaches of Barcelona and the Sagrada Familia. Another film, less known, is Salvador, directed by Manuel Huerga in 2006, teaches the Gothic Quarter, the cemetery of Montjuïc and the Model Prison.

To conclude, we note the shooting star was held in the summer of 2007, with Woody Allen as a director, who paid tribute to the movie Barcelona Vicky Cristina Barcelona, ​​shot partly in Barcelona, ​​but really looks like a documentary about the city. Released in August 2008, his character is Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, and was very well received by the American public, but not so much by the Spanish. Finally, in 2009, Isabel Coixet's latest film rolled between Tokyo and Barcelona: Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, where it appears the market and the square Llibertat Rius i Taulet.