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Gaudi Afternoon

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Translator Cassandra Reilly (Judy Davis) is an American expatriate who has just about had her fill of Barcelona, Spain -- that is, until the mysterious Frankie Stevens (Marcia Gay Harden) enlists her to play detective and find her missing husband. Eager for excitement, Cassandra takes the job but discovers that all is not what it seems when Frankie's husband, Ben (Lili Taylor), turns out to be a woman, and their real battle is not one for divorce but for custody of their child.
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Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com A kooky, madcap adventure set in Barcelona devolves into a sort of sub -sub-Almodovar picture. Stay for the opening credits, then leave. Mar 29, 2003 Full Review Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter For a while, the sheer exoticism of the characters and the setting provides a certain amount of interest, but the film's farcical situations, mostly involving the sexual orientation of its characters, ultimately prove tiresome. Mar 24, 2003 Full Review Lou Lumenick New York Post A mildly entertaining gender-bender comedy set in Barcelona, never quite lives up to its excellent cast or the onetime promise of director Susan Seidelman. Rated: 2/4 Mar 21, 2003 Full Review Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Delayed a few times in the wake of 9/11 and definitely has a lot more in common with the kinds of whimsical mid-budget comedies that filled movie theaters in the late-1990s than it does with the early 2000s. Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Jordan Hiller Bangitout.com Gaudi Afternoon is mostly dream, part nightmare, and part morality play surrounding the concept of mothering a young girl. Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 16, 2006 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 3.5/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Tardes de Gaudí [2001] Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member The film's unique style carries it as far as it goes, but it could have gone much farther still. Extremely pointless and annoyingly silly, this one really doesn't know where it's headed. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member The scenery is beautiful, the music is great, but the story never actually manage to move me. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Marcia Gay Harden makes for a hot transsexual. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member An amazing, hilarious, and beautifully acted arthouse film. I've watched this five times now and I'll never be sick of it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member For a cloudy sunday afternoon in fall... Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Susan Seidelman

Director

Judy Davis

Cassandra

Marcia Gay Harden

Frankie

Lili Taylor

Ben

Juliette Lewis

April

Courtney Jines

Delilah

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Synopsis Translator Cassandra Reilly (Judy Davis) is an American expatriate who has just about had her fill of Barcelona, Spain -- that is, until the mysterious Frankie Stevens (Marcia Gay Harden) enlists her to play detective and find her missing husband. Eager for excitement, Cassandra takes the job but discovers that all is not what it seems when Frankie's husband, Ben (Lili Taylor), turns out to be a woman, and their real battle is not one for divorce but for custody of their child.
Director
Susan Seidelman
Producer
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Screenwriter
James Myhre
Production Co
Lolafilms S.A.
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 21, 2003, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 25, 2017
Runtime
1h 28m
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