Siesta: "The Time of Day When Mystery and Eroticism Become One"

Before Jodie Foster won her Oscars, but after she graduated from Yale, she made some crappy movies hardly anyone saw.  One of them starred Ellen Barkin in a sultry red dress looking hot like she never had before (she was in her early 30s).  Siesta was written and directed by women and Miles Davis (!) provided the score.  It was filmed in Spain and featured an eclectic international group of actors: Barkin's future ex-husband and baby daddy Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini, and Grace Jones amongst others, the latter of two of which received Razzie nominations.  Conversely, the film also garnered Independent Spirit attention.  Foster displays a New England/British accent and is almost as loose as she got on that pool table a few years later.  The movie features skydiving, acrobatics, Rossellini brandishing a knife (because she did it so well in Blue Velvet), and a creepy, but helpful taxi driver in what seems like a more adult, feminist version of Romancing the Stone.  I'm not sure what exactly Barkin's character has gotten herself into, but if her exploits result in "ambition and a half hour of prime time TV," it was well worth it, I guess.  Was she talking about playing the great grandmother on The New Normal?  The trailer is something to behold.