Gaudi Afternoon

"Alone in a foreign city, Cassandra must solve a family's darkest, deepest secrets before she can confront her own past."

May 31 2002 R 1h 37m
Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Barcelona hasn’t turned out to be the romantic dreamland fledgling translator Cassandra thought it would be. She’s about to return to America when the mysterious Frankie offers her a large sum of money to track down Frankie’s missing lover.

Plot

Cassandra, a solitary writer in Barcelona (a US ex-pat) gets a call for help from a stranger - a stylish woman named Frankie - who wants Cassandra to find her husband, so he can sign some important papers. Nothing Frankie says is true: the husband turns out to be a woman, the issue isn't legal papers but a child's custody, and even Frankie's most obvious identity, in red cape and red pumps, is a false front. But Cassandra keeps at it, at first to earn her promised fee, and then to help Frankie, then Frankie's ex, then the child. Along the way, this solitary and somewhat disconnected and bewildered writer frees herself to finish a novel and re-establish a broken relationship.

Written by

Barbara Wilson, James Myhre

Directed by

Susan Seidelman

Production Countries

Spain

Production Companies

Atresmedia, Lolafilms, Vía Digital

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
1,229
Average Rating
5.9 out of 10
Metascore
44
Popularity
NA