In the opening scenes of “City of Shadows,” a man is hung from the roof of Gaudí’s famed Casa Milà, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and burned alive. Viewers who stick around will be treated to visual tours of several other Gaudí sites and old Barcelona’s neighborhoods, some with a burning body and others without.
For fans of Barcelona, “City of Shadows” embraces the city like few productions, taking full advantage of the city’s charms and mysteries. Almost every scene finds a new eye-catching Barcelona locale to spotlight, to the point it can seem like a tourism bureau video, except, of course, for the burning bodies.
