parador

It was an evening in late January, and Raquel Mendieta was dining at the Parador, the 12th-century monastery-turned-hotel where she was staying while she installed artwork for a new survey of Ana Mendieta, the famous Cuban-born performance artist — and Ms. Mendieta’s maternal aunt — at a nearby museum.

El parador Jake McQuaide, el Ram más veterano, es un agente libre sin restricciones.

That would be “Moon Over Parador,” a comedy with Richard Dreyfuss impersonating the dictator of a fake South American country.

Still, it’s remarkable to go from something as mopey as “Tenet” to “Moon Over Parador” — to go back to all of 1988, really — and notice how loud and unpleasant and unapologetically cranky everybody was, even the cartoon characters.

We stayed in a parador in Mérida that had been a convent in the eighteenth century.