Moving to a foreign city is exciting, but it’s also disorienting and hard to navigate. Barcelona is about two white-collared American guys that moved to the titular city for work, and it’s a comedy that only moves through the conversations they share with other young adults in the city and themselves, but through the small talk, the film crafts a relatable sense of unease in a new city, in a place that views their naive idealism as unfashionably outdated, and in a community that is befuddled by the two guys who should have definitely talked with each other beforehand. Barcelona won’t work for everyone, but this comedy of manners paints a picture of a generation lost in the wider world around them.

The characters.