Yup, it was just released on DVD, although Whit Stillman's previous effort, Metropolitan, is still confined to the VHS aisle. A sample of the well-written dialog follows:
Fred and Ted, cousins, are walking down a sidestreet in Barcelona.
Fred: One of the things that keeps cropping up when I read is this thing about subtext. Plays, novels, songs - they all have a subtext, which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
Ted: The text.
(Awkward pause)
Fred: Okay, that's right. But they never talk about that.
Fred and Ted walk off camera.
You've gotta love the way these two characters talk, especially Ted, who is essentially still a college kid trying to find some order and intellectualism in the land of heavy industrial equipment sales while wandering around in a strange land. And the whole bit about anti-Americanism in Spain supposedly hits the nail on the head, according to my coworkers at HP's Barcelona campus.
