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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Woody Allen
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Actors:
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Maurice Sonnenberg
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Juan Quesada,
Richard Salom,
Manel Barceló,
Josep Maria Domènech,
Emilio de Benito,
Rebecca Hall,
Scarlett Johansson,
Javier Bardem,
Penélope Cruz,
Christopher Evan Welch,
Chris Messina,
Patricia Clarkson,
Kevin Dunn,
Julio Perillán
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)112.5
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Plot Summary:
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Vicky and Cristina, these two progeny Americans disburse a summer in Spain and tournament a ostentatious artist and his gorgeous but insane ex-wife. Vicky is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually foolhardy free energy. When they all become amorously entangled, both comedic and harrowing results ensue.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Todd McCarthyVicky Cristina Barcelona is a sexy, funny divertissement that passes as enjoyably as an idle summer's afternoon in the titular Spanish city. With Javier Barden starring as a bohemian artist involved variously with Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall, pic offers potent romantic fantasy elements for men and women and a cast that should produce the best commercial returns for a Woody Allen film since Match Point. And, in the bargain, if Barcelona wants even more visitors than it already attracts, this film will supply them. Just as London did when Allen went there for Match Point, the Catalan capital serves as an evident stimulus for the director. Even if the film provides a strictly tourist's view of the city (a perspective justified by th...
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Claudia PuigVicky Cristina Barcelona is as exhilarating, captivating and enjoyable as a summer romance in an exotic city. Woody Allen's latest comedy about the vagaries of passion, set in Barcelona, shows that lovely Spanish city off to its best advantage, just as it does its lead actors. A witty, engrossing and well-crafted musing on the capricious nature of love, the film also is a valentine to the city, which is almost an additional character. Its visual splendors are displayed in a sun-dappled light with special regard for its striking art and architecture, particularly the work of Antoni Gaudi. Allen seems to have been reinvigorated since he began filming in Europe. The title derives from the names of two American women traveling in Spain. Vicky (...
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Kenneth Turan
Like shipwrecked sailors awaiting the return of the hero sent for help, comedy-deprived moviegoers are desperate for the return of the old Woody Allen, the one who made them laugh. Each new Allen film is frantically examined as soon as it appears on the horizon: "Is that him? Is he back? Please, God, let him be back."
This frenetic searching has been going on for so long that Allen spoofed it in 1980's Stardust Memories, having aliens from outer space yearn for "the early, funny ones." But as much as we'd like it to be true and despite what you may have heard, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not the return of Woody Allen. Elvis has truly left the building and, judging by appearances, he's not coming back.
That's not to say that this story o...
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